Countries Ranked by Life Expectancy

Countries ranked by life expectancy at birth, measured by years, using the latest data from the World Bank.

Life expectancy at birth is the average number of years a newborn child is expected to live if mortality patterns at the time of its birth remain constant in the future.

The global average life expectancy is 73. Since 1900, the global average life expectancy has more than doubled.

Chad has the lowest life expectancy of just 53, while Macao has the highest of 85. The sovereign states with the highest life expectancy are Japan, Liechtenstein, and French Polynesia, at 84 years.

Countries ranked by life expectancy

The table below ranks 195 of the world’s countries and territories by life expectancy at birth (in years) in 2022.

Some countries may have been omitted due to insufficient data.

Rank	Country	Life expectancy
1	Macau SAR, China	85
2	Liechtenstein	84
3	Japan	84
4	Hong Kong SAR, China	84
5	French Polynesia	84
6	Switzerland	83
7	Faroe Islands	83
8	Australia	83
9	Sweden	83
10	Spain	83
11	Ireland	83
12	Luzembourg	83
13	Italy	83
14	Singapore	83
15	Gibraltar	83
16	New Zealand	83
17	Israel	83
18	Malta	83
19	Korea Rep.	83
20	Norway	83
21	France	82
22	Iceland	82
23	United Kingdom	82
24	Cayman Islands	82
25	Cyprus	82
26	Netherlands	82
27	Belgium	82
28	Channel Islands	82
29	Portugal	82
30	Bermuda	82
31	Qatar	82
32	Denmark	81
33	Canada	81
34	Slovenia	81
35	Finland	81
36	Austria	81
37	New Caledonia	81
38	Maldives	81
39	Isle of Man	81
40	Germany	81
41	Greece	81
42	St. Martin (French part)	81
43	Virgin Islands (U.S.)	80
44	Kuwait	80
45	Puerto Rico	80
46	Thailand	80
47	Kosovo	80
48	Chile	80
49	Bahrain	79
50	Antigua and Barbuda	79
51	United Arab Emirates	79
52	Czechia	79
53	China	79
54	Turkiye	78
55	Guam	78
56	Cuba	78
57	Curacao	78
58	Uruguay	78
59	Estonia	78
60	Saudi Arabia	78
61	Luxembourg	78
62	Barbados	78
63	Croatia	78
64	United States	77
65	Costa Rica	77
66	Poland	77
67	Algeria	77
68	Slovak Republic	77
69	Albania	77
70	Panama	77
71	Sri Lanka	77
72	British Virgin Islands	76
73	Malaysia	76
74	Montenegro	76
75	Argentina	76
76	Hungary	76
77	Lithuania	76
78	Serbia	75
79	Grenada	75
80	Romania	75
81	Bosnia and Herzegovina	75
82	Aruba	75
83	St. Kitts and Nevis	75
84	Turks and Caicos Islands	75
85	Mexico	75
86	Cabo Verde	75
87	Trinidad and Tobago	75
88	Nicaragua	75
89	Latvia	75
90	Viet Nam	75
91	Iran, Islamic Rep.	75
92	Brunei Darussalam	75
93	Kazakhstan	74
94	North Macedonia	74
95	Lebanon	74
96	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	74
97	Bulgaria	74
98	Bahamas, The	74
99	Tunisia	74
100	Jordan	74
101	Dominican Republic	74
102	Oman	74
103	Seychelles	74
104	Bangladesh	74
105	Colombia	74
106	Korea, Dem. People’s Rep.	74
107	Mauritius	74
108	Azerbaijan	73
109	West Bank and Gaza	73
110	Brazil	73
111	Peru	73
112	Armenia	73
113	Belarus	73
114	Dominica	73
115	Mongolia	73
116	Samoa	73
117	Russian Federation	73
118	Syrian Arab Republic	72
119	Bhutan	72
120	Philippines	72
121	Libya	72
122	Kyrgyz Republic	72
123	Venezuela, RB	72
124	Uzbekistan	72
125	Georgia	72
126	Greenland	72
127	El Salvador	71
128	Iraq	71
129	St. Lucia	71
130	Tajikistan	71
131	Tonga	71
132	Vanuatu	71
133	Belize	71
134	Micronesia, Fed. Sts.	71
135	Solomon Islands	71
136	Honduras	71
137	Jamaica	71
138	Yemen, Rep.	70
139	Nepal	70
140	Paraguay	70
141	Suriname	70
142	Egypt, Arab Rep.	70
143	Cambodia	70
144	Turkmenistan	69
145	Palau	69
146	Timor-Leste	69
147	Lao PDR	69
148	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	69
149	Sao Tome and Principe	69
150	Guatemala	69
151	Moldova	69
152	Ukraine	69
153	Fiji	68
154	Indonesia	68
155	Senegal	68
156	India	68
157	Kiribati	68
158	Myanmar	67
159	Rwanda	67
160	Tanzania	67
161	Eritrea	67
162	Pakistan	66
163	Guyana	66
164	Papua New Guinea	66
165	Botswana	66
166	Gabon	66
167	Ethiopia	66
168	Sudan	66
169	Madagascar	65
170	Marshall Islands	65
171	Bolivia	65
172	Tuvalu	65
173	Mauritania	65
174	Nauru	64
175	Ghana	64
176	Haiti	64
177	Congo, Dem. Rep.	64
178	Comoros	64
179	Uganda	64
180	Congo, Rep.	63
181	Gambia, The	63
182	Malawi	63
183	Afghanistan	63
184	Djibouti	63
185	Niger	62
186	Kenya	62
187	Burundi	62
188	Angola	62
189	Zambia	62
190	Togo	62
191	South Africa	61
192	Equatorial Guinea	61
193	Liberia	61
194	Cameroon	61
195	Sierra Leone	60
196	Benin	60
197	Guinea-Bissau	60
198	Burkina Faso	60
199	Congo,Dem. Rep.	60
200	Mozambique	60
201	Mali	59
202	Zimbabwe	59
203	Guinea	59
204	Cote d’Ivoire	59
205	Namibia	58
206	Eswatini	56
207	Somalia	56
208	South Sudan	56
209	Central African Republic	54
210	Nigeria	54
211	Lesotho	53
212	Chad	53

Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators