Life Expectancy for Countries, 2013

Updated September 9, 2022 | Infoplease Staff

Find the average life expectancy for each country and the world. As of 2013, the country with the highest life expectancy is Monaco at 89.63 years; the country with the lowest life expectancy is Chad at just 49.07 years.

Rank	Country	Life expectancy
1	Monaco	89.63
2	Macau	84.46
3	Japan	84.19
4	Singapore	84.07
5	San Marino	83.12
6	Andorra	82.58
7	Guernsey	82.32
8	Switzerland	82.28
9	Hong Kong	82.20
10	Australia	81.98
11	Italy	81.95
12	Liechtenstein	81.59
13	Canada	81.57
14	Jersey	81.57
15	France	81.56
16	Spain	81.37
17	Sweden	81.28
18	Israel	81.17
19	Iceland	81.11
20	Anguilla	81.09
21	Netherlands	81.01
22	Bermuda	80.93
23	Cayman Islands	80.91
24	Isle of Man	80.87
25	New Zealand	80.82
26	Ireland	80.44
27	Norway	80.44
28	Germany	80.32
29	Jordan	80.30
30	United Kingdom	80.29
31	Greece	80.18
32	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	80.13
33	Austria	80.04
34	Malta	79.98
35	Faroe Islands	79.98
36	European Union	79.90
37	Luxembourg	79.88
38	Belgium	79.78
39	Taiwan	79.71
40	Virgin Islands	79.61
41	Finland	79.55
42	Korea, South	79.55
43	Turks and Caicos Islands	79.40
44	Wallis and Futuna	79.27
45	Puerto Rico	79.07
46	Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha	79.06
47	Gibraltar	78.98
48	Denmark	78.94
49	Portugal	78.85
50	Guam	78.66
51	United States	78.62
52	Bahrain	78.43
53	Chile	78.27
54	Qatar	78.24
55	Cyprus	78.17
56	Panama	78.13
57	British Virgin Islands	78.12
58	Costa Rica	78.06
59	Cuba	78.05
60	Albania	77.77
61	Slovenia	77.66
62	Dominican Republic	77.62
63	Sint Maarten	77.61
64	Czech Republic	77.56
65	Georgia	77.51
66	Kuwait	77.46
67	Northern Mariana Islands	77.45
68	Argentina	77.32
69	Saint Lucia	77.22
70	New Caledonia	77.13
71	United Arab Emirates	76.91
72	Mexico	76.86
73	Uruguay	76.61
74	Paraguay	76.60
75	French Polynesia	76.59
76	Brunei	76.57
77	Poland	76.45
78	Dominica	76.39
79	Morocco	76.31
80	Slovakia	76.24
81	Croatia	76.20
82	Algeria	76.18
83	Sri Lanka	76.15
84	Ecuador	76.15
85	Aruba	76.14
86	Bosnia and Herzegovina	76.12
87	Antigua and Barbuda	75.91
88	Libya	75.83
89	Lithuania	75.77
90	Tonga	75.60
91	Macedonia	75.58
92	West Bank	75.46
93	Tunisia	75.46
94	Lebanon	75.46
95	Hungary	75.24
96	Cook Islands	75.15
97	Syria	75.14
98	Saint Kitts and Nevis	75.07
99	Colombia	75.02
100	China	74.99
101	Mauritius	74.94
102	Maldives	74.92
103	Serbia	74.79
104	Barbados	74.75
105	Oman	74.72
106	American Samoa	74.68
107	Solomon Islands	74.66
108	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	74.62
109	Saudi Arabia	74.58
110	Romania	74.45
111	Gaza Strip	74.40
112	Malaysia	74.28
113	Venezuela	74.23
114	Bulgaria	74.08
115	Thailand	74.05
116	Seychelles	74.01
117	El Salvador	73.93
118	Estonia	73.82
119	Armenia	73.75
120	Montserrat	73.65
121	Grenada	73.55
122	Jamaica	73.44
123	Latvia	73.19
124	Egypt	73.19
125	Uzbekistan	73.03
126	Turkey	73.03
127	Brazil	73.02
128	Peru	72.98
129	Samoa	72.94
130	Vietnam	72.65
131	Nicaragua	72.45
132	Vanuatu	72.38
133	Palau	72.33
134	Marshall Islands	72.31
135	Philippines	72.21
136	Micronesia, Federated States of	72.07
137	Trinidad and Tobago	71.96
138	Indonesia	71.90
139	Fiji	71.87
140	Belarus	71.81
141	Bahamas, The	71.69
142	Azerbaijan	71.61
143	Greenland	71.54
144	Guatemala	71.46
145	Suriname	71.41
146	Cape Verde	71.28
147	Iraq	71.14
148	Honduras	70.81
149	Iran	70.62
150	Bangladesh	70.36
151	Kazakhstan	69.94
152	Russia	69.85
153	Moldova	69.82
154	Kyrgyzstan	69.75
155	Korea, North	69.51
156	Turkmenistan	69.16
157	Mongolia	68.95
158	Ukraine	68.93
159	Bhutan	68.44
160	Belize	68.40
161	Bolivia	68.22
162	Guyana	67.68
163	India	67.48
164	Timor-Leste	67.06
165	Nepal	66.86
166	Tajikistan	66.72
167	Pakistan	66.71
168	Papua New Guinea	66.66
169	Nauru	66.05
170	Burma	65.60
171	Tuvalu	65.47
172	Ghana	65.32
173	Kiribati	65.11
174	Madagascar	64.85
175	Yemen	64.47
176	Gambia, The	64.09
177	Sao Tome and Principe	63.86
178	Togo	63.62
179	Cambodia	63.41
180	Kenya	63.29
181	Eritrea	63.19
182	Laos	63.14
183	Comoros	63.12
184	Equatorial Guinea	63.12
185	Sudan	62.95
186	Haiti	62.85
187	Djibouti	61.99
188	Mauritania	61.91
189	Western Sahara	61.90
190	Tanzania	60.76
191	Benin	60.67
192	Senegal	60.57
193	Ethiopia	60.00
194	Burundi	59.69
195	Guinea	59.11
196	Rwanda	58.85
197	Liberia	57.81
198	Cote d'Ivoire	57.66
199	Sierra Leone	56.98
200	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	56.14
201	Congo, Republic of the	55.60
202	Cameroon	55.02
203	Angola	54.95
204	Mali	54.55
205	Botswana	54.47
206	Burkina Faso	54.43
207	Niger	54.34
208	Uganda	53.98
209	Zimbabwe	53.86
210	Malawi	52.78
211	Nigeria	52.46
212	Lesotho	52.30
213	Mozambique	52.29
214	Gabon	52.15
215	Namibia	52.03
216	Zambia	51.51
217	Somalia	51.19
218	Central African Republic	50.90
219	Afghanistan	50.11
220	Swaziland	50.01
221	Guinea-Bissau	49.50
222	South Africa	49.48
223	Chad	49.07