Countries by Life Expectancy

Global country ranking by life expectancy with latest available values, source notes, country links and economic context from World Bank / public data.
INDICATOR: Life Expectancy
UNIT: years
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
CACHE: live
UPDATED: 2026-10-26 05:09:06

Full ranking · Life Expectancy

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Rank Country Latest value Class Country page
1 Hong Kong 85.39 open
2 Kuwait 84.58 open
3 Switzerland 84.41 open
4 Sweden 84.06 open
5 Japan 84.04 open
6 Italy 83.95 open
7 Spain 83.89 open
8 South Korea 83.63 open
9 Singapore 83.35 open
10 Macao 83.33 open
11 Israel 83.2 open
12 Luxembourg 83.2 open
13 Norway 83.16 open
14 United Arab Emirates 83.07 open
15 Australia 83.05 open
16 Ireland 83.01 open
17 France 82.98 open
18 Iceland 82.81 open
19 Qatar 82.52 open
20 Portugal 82.38 open
21 Finland 82.34 open
22 Belgium 82.3 open
23 Slovenia 82.29 open
24 Denmark 82.25 open
25 Canada 82.11 open
26 New Zealand 82.01 open
27 Austria 82 open
28 Netherlands 81.97 open
29 Greece 81.84 open
30 Cyprus 81.82 open
31 Bahrain 81.42 open
32 United Kingdom 81.39 open
33 Chile 81.36 open
34 Maldives 81.29 open
35 Germany 80.79 open
36 Oman 80.25 open
37 Czech Republic 79.98 open
38 Estonia 79.3 open
39 Saudi Arabia 78.98 open
40 Croatia 78.93 open
41 United States 78.89 open
42 Poland 78.41 open
43 Slovakia 78.37 open
44 Armenia 78.32 open
45 China 78.02 open
46 Jordan 77.98 open
47 Lebanon 77.95 open
48 Peru 77.94 open
49 Colombia 77.91 open
50 Iran 77.85 open
51 Sri Lanka 77.67 open
52 Argentina 77.54 open
53 Turkey 77.42 open
54 Lithuania 77.2 open
55 Malaysia 76.82 open
56 Hungary 76.72 open
57 Tunisia 76.71 open
58 Thailand 76.56 open
59 Algeria 76.48 open
60 Romania 76.46 open
61 Latvia 76.43 open
62 Brazil 76.02 open
63 Serbia 75.97 open
64 Bulgaria 75.76 open
65 Brunei 75.5 open
66 Morocco 75.49 open
67 Mexico 75.26 open
68 Bangladesh 74.93 open
69 Vietnam 74.74 open
70 Ukraine 74.69 open
71 Georgia 74.66 open
72 Azerbaijan 74.58 open
73 Kazakhstan 74.53 open
74 North Korea 73.74 open
75 Russia 73.44 open
76 Bhutan 73.26 open
77 Tonga 73.07 open
78 Syria 72.56 open
79 Uzbekistan 72.53 open
80 Iraq 72.42 open
81 Kyrgyzstan 72.4 open
82 Mongolia 72.4 open
83 India 72.24 open
84 Tajikistan 71.93 open
85 Samoa 71.83 open
86 Egypt 71.81 open
87 Vanuatu 71.65 open
88 Indonesia 71.29 open
89 Cambodia 70.82 open
90 Solomon Islands 70.69 open
91 Nepal 70.64 open
92 Turkmenistan 70.2 open
93 Philippines 69.95 open
94 Yemen 69.44 open
95 Palau 69.38 open
96 Laos 69.23 open
97 West Bank and Gaza 69.21 open
98 Timor-Leste 67.9 open
99 Pakistan 67.8 open
100 Ethiopia 67.6 open
101 Fiji 67.46 open
102 Micronesia 67.36 open
103 Tuvalu 67.26 open
104 Myanmar 67.1 open
105 Marshall Islands 67.08 open
106 Kiribati 66.6 open
107 South Africa 66.31 open
108 Afghanistan 66.29 open
109 Papua New Guinea 66.26 open
110 Ghana 65.7 open
111 Kenya 63.83 open
112 Nauru 62.28 open
113 Nigeria 54.64 open

Ranking interpretation

context

This ranking uses the latest available value in the local indicator dataset.

Production version: ranking tables should show source timestamp, latest available year and fallback status.

Countries by Life Expectancy: data context and use

This page is part of the Economy Data indicator system. It provides structured country-level economic data, historical series, rankings and comparison views for researchers, students, journalists and decision makers. The page combines indicator metadata, country context, latest available values, ranking information and source notes.

The selected indicator is Life Expectancy for Germany. The data are designed for quick comparison across countries and for deeper interpretation together with related macroeconomic indicators such as GDP growth, government debt, unemployment, current account balance, exports, imports, population and inequality.

Keyphrase synonyms: life expectancy by country, global life expectancy ranking, country ranking life expectancy, best countries by life expectancy.