Countries by life expectancy

Name: Countries by life expectancy, 2023
Creator: World Bank
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Monaco had the highest life expectancy of 215 countries in 2023, at 86.37 years. Nigeria had the lowest, at 54.46 years. The median was 74.5 years and the figure for the World was 73.33 years. Source: the World Bank.

Highest86.37Monaco

Lowest54.46Nigeria

Median74.5215 countries

World73.33History

Top 40 countries, 2023

CSV Chart (SVG)

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

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2023 years	Change on 2022
1	Monaco	86.37	+0.63
2	San Marino	85.71	-0
3	Hong Kong	85.25	+1.59
4	Liechtenstein	84.6	+0.47
5	Switzerland	84.16	+0.55
6	French Polynesia	84.07	+0.21
7	Japan	84.04	+0.04
8	Andorra	84.04	+0.02
9	Spain	83.93	+0.8
10	Gibraltar	83.55	+0.04
11	South Korea	83.43	+0.75
12	Malta	83.36	+1.06
13	Italy	83.35	+0.65
14	Luxembourg	83.31	+0.36
14	Sweden	83.31	+0.25
16	Israel	83.2	+0.5
17	Kuwait	83.19	+2.6
18	Macao	83.18	+0.1
19	Singapore	83.1	+0.2
20	Australia	83.05	-0.15
21	Norway	83.01	+0.5
22	Faroe Islands	82.95	+0.14
23	United Arab Emirates	82.91	+2.42
24	France	82.83	+0.7
25	Ireland	82.81	+0.3
26	Iceland	82.46	+0.34
27	Belgium	82.4	+0.65
28	Qatar	82.37	+0.51
29	Portugal	82.33	+0.7
30	Bermuda	82.31	+0.25
31	Slovenia	81.93	+0.65
32	Netherlands	81.86	+0.25
33	Austria	81.79	+0.5
34	New Zealand	81.76	-0.2
35	Denmark	81.75	+0.45
36	Greece	81.74	+0.95
37	Puerto Rico	81.69	+2.26
38	Cyprus	81.65	+1.21
39	Canada	81.63	+0.53
40	Finland	81.59	+0.4
41	Bahrain	81.28	+0.29
42	United Kingdom	81.24	+0.23
43	Chile	81.17	+1.99
44	Germany	81.04	+0.43
45	Maldives	81.04	+0.28
46	Isle of Man	81	+0.04
47	Costa Rica	80.8	+1.48
48	U.S. Virgin Islands	80.52	+0.2
49	Cayman Islands	80.36	+0.37
50	Saint Martin	80.22	-0.01
51	Oman	80.03	+2.12
52	Czechia	79.83	+0.9
53	Albania	79.6	+0.83
54	Panama	79.59	+0.27
55	Northern Mariana Islands	78.81	+0.28
56	Estonia	78.79	+0.95
57	New Caledonia	78.77	+1.07
58	Saudi Arabia	78.73	+1.42
59	Croatia	78.47	+0.9
60	United States	78.39	+0.95
61	Poland	78.26	+1.1
62	Uruguay	78.14	+1.67
63	Slovakia	78.12	+1.15
64	Cuba	78.09	+0.46
65	Turks and Caicos Islands	78.01	+0.09
66	China	77.95	-0.25
67	Bosnia and Herzegovina	77.85	+1.07
68	Lebanon	77.82	-0.19
69	Jordan	77.81	+0.73
70	Peru	77.74	+0.91
71	Colombia	77.73	+1.22
72	Iran	77.65	+0.85
73	Antigua and Barbuda	77.6	+0.11
74	Montenegro	77.59	+1.4
75	Sri Lanka	77.48	+0.18
76	Armenia	77.47	+2.7
77	Argentina	77.4	+1.59
78	Ecuador	77.39	+0.81
79	Lithuania	77.29	+1.65
80	British Virgin Islands	77.28	+0.1
81	Guam	77.21	+0.11
82	Türkiye	77.16	-0.43
83	Curaçao	76.8	+0.07
84	Malaysia	76.66	+1.21
85	Hungary	76.57	+0.7
86	Tunisia	76.51	+0.46
87	Thailand	76.41	+1.12
88	Romania	76.4	+1.25
89	Sint Maarten	76.37	+0.19
90	Aruba	76.35	+0.13
91	Algeria	76.26	+0.13
92	Barbados	76.18	+0.5
93	Serbia	76.14	+0.9
94	Cape Verde	76.06	+0.15
95	Brazil	75.85	+0.98
96	Bulgaria	75.76	+1.6
97	Latvia	75.43	+1.15
98	Seychelles	75.42	+0.91
99	Brunei	75.33	+2.41
100	North Macedonia	75.32	+0.89
101	Morocco	75.31	+0.15
102	Grenada	75.21	+0.05
103	Mexico	75.07	+1.1
104	Nicaragua	74.95	+0.48
105	Bangladesh	74.67	+0.41
106	Vietnam	74.59	+0.09
107	Bahamas	74.55	+0.06
108	Georgia	74.5	+0.35
109	Azerbaijan	74.43	+0.3
110	Kazakhstan	74.4	+0.9
111	Belarus	74.18	+0.08
112	Paraguay	73.84	+1.52
113	Dominican Republic	73.72	-0.49
114	North Korea	73.64	0
115	Suriname	73.63	+0.38
116	Belize	73.57	+1.38
117	Trinidad and Tobago	73.49	+0.16
118	Ukraine	73.42	+0.76
119	Mauritius	73.41	-0.1
120	Russia	73.25	+0.71
121	Bhutan	72.98	+0.22
122	Tonga	72.9	+0.26
123	Honduras	72.88	+0.17
124	American Samoa	72.85	+0.1
125	Saint Lucia	72.7	+0.03
126	Guatemala	72.6	+1.4
127	Venezuela	72.51	-0.05
128	Uzbekistan	72.39	+0.24
129	Iraq	72.32	+0.29
130	Kyrgyzstan	72.25	+0.2
131	Saint Kitts and Nevis	72.15	+1.83
132	Mongolia	72.12	+0.22
133	Syria	72.12	-0.67
134	El Salvador	72.1	+0.13
135	India	72	+0.31
136	Tajikistan	71.79	+0.23
137	Samoa	71.7	+0.15
138	Egypt	71.63	+0.62
139	Jamaica	71.48	-0
140	Vanuatu	71.48	+0.17
141	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	71.23	+0.04
142	Moldova	71.2	-0.35
143	Indonesia	71.15	+0.22
144	Dominica	71.13	+0.05
145	Greenland	70.97	-0.26
146	Cambodia	70.67	+0.14
147	Solomon Islands	70.53	+0.12
148	Nepal	70.35	+0.27
149	Guyana	70.18	+0.29
150	Turkmenistan	70.07	+0.16
151	Philippines	69.83	+0.36
152	São Tomé and Príncipe	69.72	+0.48
153	Libya	69.34	-5.12
154	Yemen	69.3	+1.34
155	Palau	69.27	+0.35
156	Botswana	69.16	+0.41
157	Laos	68.96	+0.25
158	Senegal	68.68	+0.9
159	Eritrea	68.62	+0.83
160	Bolivia	68.58	+1.15
161	Mauritania	68.48	+0.2
162	Gabon	68.34	+0.62
163	Uganda	68.25	+0.58
164	Rwanda	67.79	+0.26
165	Timor-Leste	67.69	+0.32
166	Pakistan	67.65	+0.23
167	Namibia	67.39	+3.2
168	Malawi	67.35	+1.32
169	Fiji	67.32	+0.17
170	Ethiopia	67.32	+0.42
171	Micronesia	67.2	+0.24
172	Tuvalu	67.11	+0.25
173	Tanzania	67	+0.12
174	Marshall Islands	66.95	+0.22
175	Myanmar	66.89	+0.38
176	Comoros	66.78	+0.3
177	Kiribati	66.47	+0.2
178	Zambia	66.35	+1.07
179	Sudan	66.33	+0.64
180	South Africa	66.14	+0.69
181	Papua New Guinea	66.13	+0.86
182	Afghanistan	66.04	+0.42
183	Djibouti	65.99	+0.45
184	Gambia	65.86	+1
185	Republic of the Congo	65.77	+0.77
186	Ghana	65.5	+0.25
187	Palestine	65.17	-11.49
188	Haiti	64.94	+0.99
189	Angola	64.62	+0.37
190	Eswatini	64.12	+1.1
191	Guinea-Bissau	64.09	+0.48
192	Equatorial Guinea	63.71	+0.35
193	Cameroon	63.7	+1.26
194	Burundi	63.65	+0.77
195	Kenya	63.65	+0.1
196	Madagascar	63.63	+0.56
197	Mozambique	63.61	+0.6
198	Zimbabwe	62.78	+0.41
199	Togo	62.74	+0.45
200	Liberia	62.16	+0.23
201	Nauru	62.11	+0.18
202	Côte d’Ivoire	61.94	+0.38
203	Democratic Republic of the Congo	61.9	+0.92
204	Sierra Leone	61.79	+0.51
205	Niger	61.18	+0.78
206	Burkina Faso	61.09	+0.39
207	Benin	60.77	+0.3
208	Guinea	60.74	+0.31
209	Mali	60.44	+0.4
210	Somalia	58.82	+4.89
211	South Sudan	57.62	+0.41
212	Central African Republic	57.41	+38.59
213	Lesotho	57.38	+0.56
214	Chad	55.07	+0.54
215	Nigeria	54.46	+0.38

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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 86.37 years in 2023, according to the World Bank.

Which country has the lowest life expectancy?

Nigeria, with 54.46 years in 2023.

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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.