Countries by life expectancy

Name: Countries by life expectancy, 2020
Creator: World Bank
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Monaco had the highest life expectancy of 215 countries in 2020, at 86.09 years. The Central African Republic had the lowest, at 50.6 years. The median was 72.78 years and the figure for the World was 72.18 years. Source: the World Bank.

Highest86.09Monaco

Lowest50.6Central African Republic

Median72.78215 countries

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Top 40 countries, 2020

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years. Source: World Bank. Retrieved 2026-10-09.

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2020 years	Change on 2019
1	Monaco	86.09	-0.06
2	Hong Kong	85.5	+0.34
3	Japan	84.56	+0.2
4	Macao	84.13	+0.2
5	Singapore	83.54	-0.05
6	South Korea	83.43	+0.2
7	Norway	83.21	+0.25
8	Australia	83.2	+0.3
9	Gibraltar	83.07	-0.11
10	Iceland	83.06	-0.1
11	Switzerland	83	-0.9
12	San Marino	82.65	-2.61
13	Israel	82.65	-0.16
14	Faroe Islands	82.53	+0.14
15	French Polynesia	82.46	-0.74
16	Ireland	82.46	-0.25
17	Sweden	82.36	-0.75
18	New Zealand	82.26	+0.2
19	Spain	82.23	-1.6
20	Italy	82.2	-1.3
21	France	82.18	-0.65
22	Luxembourg	82.14	-0.5
23	Malta	82.1	-0.56
24	United Arab Emirates	81.94	-0.66
25	Finland	81.93	-0.05
26	Liechtenstein	81.66	-2.5
27	Denmark	81.6	+0.15
28	Canada	81.53	-0.63
29	Bermuda	81.46	+0.2
30	Netherlands	81.36	-0.75
31	Portugal	81.33	-0.35
32	Greece	81.29	-0.35
33	Cyprus	81.23	-0.22
34	Austria	81.19	-0.7
35	Germany	81.04	-0.25
36	Belgium	80.7	-1.3
37	Isle of Man	80.59	-0.15
38	Slovenia	80.53	-1
39	Qatar	80.41	-2.54
40	United Kingdom	80.33	-1.04
41	Saint Martin	80.09	+0.01
42	Puerto Rico	80.01	-1.43
43	U.S. Virgin Islands	79.82	+0.15
44	Costa Rica	79.73	-0.57
45	Andorra	79.42	-4.68
46	Chile	79.35	-0.97
47	Cayman Islands	79.23	+0.18
48	Kuwait	78.76	-3.21
49	Maldives	78.71	-0.99
50	Bahrain	78.68	-1.79
51	Estonia	78.6	-0.05
52	Uruguay	78.38	+0.88
53	Czechia	78.23	-1
54	Northern Mariana Islands	78.03	+0.19
55	China	78.02	+0.08
56	Albania	77.82	-1.64
57	Oman	77.76	-2.18
58	Saudi Arabia	77.6	-0.72
59	Croatia	77.52	-0.7
60	Turks and Caicos Islands	77.5	-0.19
61	Cuba	77.41	-0.01
62	Thailand	77.33	+0.13
63	Seychelles	77.24	+3.19
64	Antigua and Barbuda	77.16	-0.01
65	New Caledonia	77.05	-0.21
66	United States	76.98	-1.81
67	Sri Lanka	76.93	+0.23
68	British Virgin Islands	76.89	+0.05
69	Slovakia	76.87	-0.8
70	Barbados	76.65	+0.15
71	Türkiye	76.53	-1.21
72	Curaçao	76.5	+0.01
73	Poland	76.4	-1.5
74	Panama	76.33	-2.18
75	Lebanon	76.3	-1.91
76	Malaysia	76.06	+0.16
77	Bosnia and Herzegovina	76.04	-1.35
78	Montenegro	75.93	-0.75
79	Argentina	75.88	-0.97
80	Jordan	75.58	-1.28
81	Guam	75.53	-1.12
82	Hungary	75.42	-0.9
83	Aruba	75.41	-0.61
84	Vietnam	75.38	+1.17
85	Latvia	75.19	-0.2
86	Brunei	75.11	+0.06
87	Lithuania	75.03	-1.25
88	Grenada	75.02	+0.05
89	Tunisia	75	-0.59
90	Sint Maarten	75	-0.68
91	Palestine	75	-0.81
92	Colombia	74.76	-2.04
93	Brazil	74.51	-1.3
94	Serbia	74.48	-1.46
95	North Macedonia	74.4	-2.21
96	Romania	74.25	-1.35
97	Mauritius	74.18	-0.06
98	Iran	74.14	-2.71
99	Peru	73.83	-2.44
100	Cape Verde	73.82	-1.63
101	Georgia	73.51	-0.66
102	Armenia	73.38	-2.85
103	Bulgaria	73.36	-1.76
104	Ukraine	73.28	-0.64
105	Algeria	73.26	-2.42
106	Morocco	73.13	-1.11
107	Bahamas	72.99	+1.59
108	North Korea	72.78	-0.14
109	Paraguay	72.72	-0.95
110	American Samoa	72.67	-0.08
111	Trinidad and Tobago	72.65	-0.19
112	Dominican Republic	72.64	-0.48
113	Libya	72.39	-0.55
114	Tonga	72.38	+0.09
115	Venezuela	72.37	-0.4
116	Suriname	72.32	+0.55
117	Saint Lucia	72.31	+0.06
118	Bhutan	72.25	+0.25
119	Belarus	72.14	-2.09
120	Ecuador	72	-5.28
121	Syria	71.94	+0.97
122	Kyrgyzstan	71.8	+0.2
123	Belize	71.58	-1
124	Uzbekistan	71.46	-0.63
125	Jamaica	71.45	-0.08
126	Bangladesh	71.42	-1.2
127	Mongolia	71.35	+0.3
128	Russia	71.34	-1.75
129	Greenland	71.29	-0.12
130	Dominica	71.27	-0.04
131	Kazakhstan	71.2	-2.46
132	Saint Kitts and Nevis	71.18	-0.36
133	Honduras	70.86	-1.26
134	Nicaragua	70.77	-3
135	Samoa	70.73	+0.46
136	Mexico	70.45	-4.08
137	Vanuatu	70.39	-0.4
138	Azerbaijan	70.31	-2.98
139	El Salvador	70.24	-1.48
140	India	70.16	-0.59
141	Philippines	70.1	+0.42
142	Cambodia	70.06	-0.07
143	Guatemala	69.97	-1.67
144	Moldova	69.91	-0.27
145	Egypt	69.79	-1.42
146	Iraq	69.65	-1.59
147	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	69.61	-1.39
148	Solomon Islands	69.26	-0.72
149	Nepal	69.11	-0.19
150	Turkmenistan	68.85	-0.56
151	Indonesia	68.82	-1.53
152	Palau	68.69	-0.29
153	Tajikistan	68.61	-2.36
154	Laos	68.34	+0.43
155	São Tomé and Príncipe	67.98	-0.06
156	Guyana	67.75	-1.32
157	Botswana	67.64	+0.48
158	Senegal	67.5	-0.17
159	Gabon	67.07	-0.26
160	Eritrea	66.98	-0.33
161	Rwanda	66.95	+0.26
162	Fiji	66.92	-0.08
163	Timor-Leste	66.92	+0.42
164	Mauritania	66.79	-0.85
165	Tanzania	66.77	+0.76
166	Myanmar	66.61	+0.16
167	Yemen	66.44	-0.13
168	Uganda	66.41	+0.06
169	Tuvalu	66.36	+0.25
170	Ethiopia	65.97	+0.23
171	Micronesia	65.88	-0.32
172	Comoros	65.76	+0.09
173	Pakistan	65.7	-1.03
174	Marshall Islands	65.39	-0.66
175	Malawi	65.22	+0.22
176	Kiribati	65.21	-0.66
177	South Africa	65.15	-0.92
178	Sudan	65.12	-0.68
179	Papua New Guinea	65.08	-0.26
180	Gambia	64.42	-0.01
181	Republic of the Congo	64.39	+1.24
182	Ghana	64.31	-0.15
183	Djibouti	64.2	-0.18
184	Namibia	64.07	+0.52
185	Haiti	63.77	-0.55
186	Zambia	63.36	+0.45
187	Angola	63.12	+0.06
188	Bolivia	62.91	-4.91
189	Madagascar	62.71	-0.8
190	Burundi	62.57	+0.39
191	Equatorial Guinea	62.14	-0.16
192	Cameroon	61.67	-0.02
193	Kenya	61.6	-1.34
194	Zimbabwe	61.53	+0.47
195	Nauru	61.53	+0.13
196	Afghanistan	61.45	-1.49
197	Mozambique	61.39	+0.08
198	Guinea-Bissau	61.34	-0.82
199	Liberia	61.27	+0.04
200	Togo	61.14	+0.08
201	Burkina Faso	60.45	+0.27
202	Democratic Republic of the Congo	60.43	+0.19
203	Benin	60.15	+0.27
204	Côte d’Ivoire	60.14	-0.13
205	Niger	59.89	-0.14
206	Eswatini	59.86	+0.01
207	Sierra Leone	59.69	+0.1
208	Guinea	59.35	-0.03
209	Mali	58.86	-0.36
210	South Sudan	57.65	-0.48
211	Somalia	57.1	-0.15
212	Lesotho	55.13	-0.12
213	Chad	53.08	+0.09
214	Nigeria	53.07	+0.06
215	Central African Republic	50.6	+19.07

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About this ranking

Average number of years a newborn would live at current age-specific mortality, both sexes.

United States: NCHS period life tables. National figures from 1900 to 1932 cover only the states then in the death registration area. State figures are available for 2018 to 2021.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the countries are compared on one definition. Equal values share a rank.

How to cite

World Bank, World Development Indicators. Life expectancy at birth, total, years (SP.DYN.LE00.IN). https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.LE00.IN. Retrieved 2026-10-09.

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Which country has the highest life expectancy?

Monaco, with 86.09 years in 2020, according to the World Bank.

Which country has the lowest life expectancy?

The Central African Republic, with 50.6 years in 2020.

Where does this ranking come from?

Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: World Bank, Life expectancy at birth, total, years (SP.DYN.LE00.IN). Retrieved 2026-10-09.