Countries by life expectancy

Name: Countries by life expectancy, 2022
Creator: World Bank
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Monaco had the highest life expectancy of 215 countries in 2022, at 85.75 years. The Central African Republic had the lowest, at 18.82 years. The median was 74.16 years and the figure for the World was 72.97 years. Source: the World Bank.

Highest85.75Monaco

Lowest18.82Central African Republic

Median74.16215 countries

World72.97History

Top 40 countries, 2022

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

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2022 years	Change on 2021
1	Monaco	85.75	+0.63
2	San Marino	85.71	+2.17
3	Liechtenstein	84.12	-0.28
4	Andorra	84.02	+1.69
5	Japan	84	-0.45
6	French Polynesia	83.86	+4.29
7	Hong Kong	83.66	-1.87
8	Switzerland	83.6	-0.15
9	Gibraltar	83.52	+3.24
10	Australia	83.2	-0.1
11	Spain	83.13	-0.04
12	Macao	83.08	-0.65
13	Sweden	83.06	0
14	Luxembourg	82.95	+0.35
15	Singapore	82.9	-0.2
16	Faroe Islands	82.82	+0.14
17	Israel	82.7	+0.2
17	Italy	82.7	+0.05
19	South Korea	82.68	-0.85
20	Ireland	82.51	+0.26
20	Norway	82.51	-0.65
22	Malta	82.3	+0.04
23	France	82.13	-0.2
24	Iceland	82.12	-1.05
25	Bermuda	82.06	+0.32
26	New Zealand	81.96	-0.25
27	Qatar	81.86	+0.77
28	Belgium	81.75	-0.04
29	Portugal	81.63	+0.25
30	Netherlands	81.61	+0.3
31	Denmark	81.3	-0.1
32	Austria	81.3	+0.1
33	Slovenia	81.28	+0.61
34	Finland	81.19	-0.7
35	Canada	81.09	-0.36
36	United Kingdom	81.01	+0.36
37	Bahrain	80.99	+2.91
38	Isle of Man	80.96	+0.54
39	Greece	80.79	+0.7
40	Maldives	80.76	+2.71
41	Germany	80.61	-0.18
42	Kuwait	80.59	+1.85
43	United Arab Emirates	80.49	+1.4
44	Cyprus	80.43	-0.14
45	U.S. Virgin Islands	80.32	+0.25
46	Saint Martin	80.24	+0.03
47	Cayman Islands	79.98	+0.68
48	Puerto Rico	79.43	-0.34
49	Panama	79.32	+2.32
50	Costa Rica	79.32	+1.27
51	Chile	79.18	+0.3
52	Czechia	78.93	+1.71
53	Albania	78.77	+1.93
54	Northern Mariana Islands	78.53	+0.37
55	China	78.2	+0.08
56	Lebanon	78	+4.35
57	Turks and Caicos Islands	77.92	+0.68
58	Oman	77.91	+1.94
59	Estonia	77.84	+0.9
60	New Caledonia	77.7	+0.58
61	Cuba	77.63	+4.43
62	Türkiye	77.59	+1.87
63	Croatia	77.58	+1.15
64	Antigua and Barbuda	77.48	+0.29
65	United States	77.43	+1.1
66	Saudi Arabia	77.31	+0.22
67	Sri Lanka	77.3	+1.02
68	British Virgin Islands	77.18	+1.88
69	Poland	77.16	+1.8
70	Guam	77.1	+1.67
71	Jordan	77.09	+2.88
72	Slovakia	76.97	+2.35
73	Peru	76.83	+5.24
74	Iran	76.8	+3.05
75	Bosnia and Herzegovina	76.78	+2.21
76	Curaçao	76.73	+1.04
77	Palestine	76.66	+2.77
78	Ecuador	76.58	+3.83
79	Colombia	76.51	+3.81
80	Uruguay	76.47	+1.03
81	Aruba	76.23	+2.57
82	Montenegro	76.19	+2.36
83	Sint Maarten	76.18	+1.68
84	Algeria	76.13	+0.92
85	Tunisia	76.05	+3.16
86	Cape Verde	75.91	+1.48
87	Hungary	75.87	+1.8
88	Argentina	75.81	+1.86
89	Barbados	75.68	-0.9
90	Lithuania	75.64	+1.61
91	Malaysia	75.44	+1.53
92	Thailand	75.29	-2.31
93	Serbia	75.24	+2.46
94	Morocco	75.16	+1.78
95	Romania	75.15	+2.34
96	Grenada	75.15	+0.63
97	Brazil	74.87	+1.83
98	Armenia	74.77	+2.49
99	Seychelles	74.51	+1.11
100	Vietnam	74.5	+0.36
101	Bahamas	74.49	+3.74
102	Nicaragua	74.46	+3.98
103	Libya	74.46	+2.4
104	North Macedonia	74.42	+1.18
105	Latvia	74.28	+1.3
106	Bangladesh	74.27	+3.16
107	Dominican Republic	74.21	+2.45
108	Bulgaria	74.16	+2.95
109	Georgia	74.14	+2.51
110	Azerbaijan	74.13	+3.13
111	Belarus	74.1	+2.03
112	Mexico	73.97	+4.22
113	North Korea	73.64	+0.2
114	Mauritius	73.51	-0.17
115	Kazakhstan	73.5	+3.37
116	Trinidad and Tobago	73.33	+2.22
117	Suriname	73.25	+4.31
118	Brunei	72.92	-1.95
119	Syria	72.79	+0.37
120	Bhutan	72.75	+0.31
121	American Samoa	72.75	+0.04
122	Honduras	72.72	+3.22
123	Saint Lucia	72.67	+3.55
124	Ukraine	72.66	+1.03
125	Tonga	72.64	+0.51
126	Venezuela	72.57	+1.03
127	Russia	72.55	+2.65
128	Paraguay	72.32	+4.21
129	Belize	72.19	+1.27
130	Uzbekistan	72.15	+0.47
131	Kyrgyzstan	72.05	+0.15
132	Iraq	72.04	+1.33
133	El Salvador	71.97	+2.03
134	Mongolia	71.9	+0.26
135	India	71.7	+4.42
136	Tajikistan	71.56	+1.97
137	Samoa	71.55	+0.45
138	Moldova	71.55	+2.56
139	Jamaica	71.48	+2.4
140	Vanuatu	71.3	+1.35
141	Greenland	71.23	-0.03
142	Guatemala	71.21	+3.35
143	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	71.19	+2.06
144	Dominica	71.08	+1.25
145	Egypt	71.01	+2.03
146	Indonesia	70.93	+3.47
147	Cambodia	70.53	+1.23
148	Solomon Islands	70.41	+1.52
149	Saint Kitts and Nevis	70.31	+1.04
150	Nepal	70.09	+1.7
151	Turkmenistan	69.91	+0.56
152	Guyana	69.89	+5.57
153	Philippines	69.47	+2.8
154	São Tomé and Príncipe	69.24	+1.21
155	Palau	68.92	+0.36
156	Botswana	68.75	+5.45
157	Laos	68.72	+0.91
158	Mauritania	68.28	+1.52
159	Yemen	67.95	+1.93
160	Eritrea	67.79	+0.85
161	Senegal	67.79	+0.92
162	Gabon	67.71	+0.64
163	Uganda	67.68	+1.22
164	Rwanda	67.53	+0.68
165	Bolivia	67.43	+6.01
166	Pakistan	67.42	+1.64
167	Timor-Leste	67.37	+1.17
168	Fiji	67.15	+2.24
169	Micronesia	66.96	+0.81
170	Ethiopia	66.9	+1.57
171	Tanzania	66.88	+0.75
172	Tuvalu	66.85	+1.03
173	Marshall Islands	66.73	+1.3
174	Myanmar	66.51	+0.95
175	Comoros	66.48	+1.28
176	Kiribati	66.27	+2.12
177	Malawi	66.04	+1.26
178	Sudan	65.7	+1.23
179	Afghanistan	65.62	+5.2
180	Djibouti	65.54	+1.71
181	South Africa	65.45	+3.44
182	Zambia	65.28	+2.92
183	Papua New Guinea	65.27	+0.92
184	Ghana	65.25	+0.96
185	Republic of the Congo	65	+0.81
186	Gambia	64.86	+1.01
187	Angola	64.25	+1.29
188	Namibia	64.19	+3.34
189	Haiti	63.95	+1.34
190	Guinea-Bissau	63.61	+1.95
191	Kenya	63.55	+2.32
192	Equatorial Guinea	63.36	+0.91
193	Madagascar	63.07	+0.55
194	Eswatini	63.03	+4.8
195	Mozambique	63.01	+2.74
196	Burundi	62.88	+0.78
197	Cameroon	62.44	+1.3
198	Zimbabwe	62.36	+2.23
199	Togo	62.29	+0.95
200	Liberia	61.93	+0.77
201	Nauru	61.93	+0.6
202	Côte d’Ivoire	61.56	+1.27
203	Sierra Leone	61.28	+1.02
204	Democratic Republic of the Congo	60.98	+0.94
205	Burkina Faso	60.7	+0.65
206	Benin	60.48	+0.87
207	Guinea	60.43	+1.06
208	Niger	60.4	+0.86
209	Mali	60.04	+0.92
210	South Sudan	57.2	+0.16
211	Lesotho	56.81	+2.6
212	Chad	54.53	+1.39
213	Nigeria	54.08	+0.62
214	Somalia	53.93	-1.77
215	Central African Republic	18.82	-21.46

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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 85.75 years in 2022, according to the World Bank.

Which country has the lowest life expectancy?

The Central African Republic, with 18.82 years in 2022.

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.