Life expectancy 2025 by country & gender

Life Expectancy at birth of the world's populations, based on the latest United Nations Population Division estimates.

world map of life expectancy at birth, UN estimate 2023

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Dark green: Aus & NZ, Canada, Japan, W & Sth Europe etc

Lighter greens: USA, Brasil, Peru, Chile, China, Russia, Algeria etc

Yellow & Orange: Sth Africa, Egypt, Libya, Zambia, Angola etc

Countries ranked by life expectancy (2025): 

Rank	Country	Life Expectancy both sexes	Females Life  Expectancy	Males Life Expectancy
1	Hong Kong	85.77	88.39	83.1
2	Japan	85	88.03	81.99
3	South Korea	84.53	87.4	81.44
4	Fr Polynesia	84.31	86.74	82.03
5	Switzerland	84.23	86.06	82.34
6	Australia	84.21	85.97	82.43
7	Italy	84.03	86.01	81.94
8	Singapore	84	86.48	81.53
9	Spain	83.96	86.59	81.27
10	Réunion	83.8	86.57	80.81
11	Malta	83.63	85.51	81.69
12	Norway	83.61	85.09	82.11
13	France	83.58	86.31	80.73
14	Sweden	83.58	85.34	81.84
15	Macao	83.42	85.49	81.26
16	UnArabEmir	83.23	84.44	82.37
17	Iceland	83.15	84.57	81.8
18	Martinique	82.89	85.84	79.63
19	Canada	82.88	85.03	80.74
20	Israel	82.77	84.81	80.67
21	Ireland	82.75	84.72	80.79
22	Portugal	82.72	85.37	79.89
23	Qatar	82.68	83.6	81.96
24	Luxemb'g	82.49	84.06	80.91
25	Neth'lands	82.45	83.98	80.89
26	Belgium	82.43	84.57	80.26
27	Guadel'pe	82.4	85.77	78.56
28	New Zealand	82.39	84	80.77
29	Austria	82.29	84.57	79.97
30	Denmark	82.25	84.1	80.39
31	Finland	82.24	84.91	79.6
32	Greece	82.22	84.6	79.74
33	Puerto Rico	82.08	85.5	78.5
34	Cyprus	81.99	83.93	80.05
35	Slovenia	81.94	84.58	79.33
36	Germany	81.71	84.01	79.42
37	United Kingdom	81.6	83.45	79.72
38	Bahrain	81.58	82.26	81.03
39	Chile	81.54	83.37	79.67
40	Maldives	81.51	83.17	80.2
41	Costa Rica	81.19	83.72	78.6
42	Taiwan	80.94	83.88	78.09
43	Kuwait	80.78	82.15	79.63
44	Oman	80.45	82.21	78.95
45	Czechia	80.11	82.85	77.35
46	Panama	79.96	82.84	77.1
47	Albania	79.95	81.74	78.12
48	United States	79.61	82.11	77.22
49	Estonia	79.48	83.3	75.35
50	Saudi Arabia	79.19	81.51	77.56
51	New Caldnia	79.07	81.53	76.63
52	Poland	78.98	82.61	75.31
53	Croatia	78.92	81.95	75.8
54	Slovakia	78.65	81.84	75.41
55	Uruguay	78.45	82.17	74.59
56	Cuba	78.45	80.84	76.06
57	China	78.37	81.25	75.65
58	BosniaHerz.	78.24	81.23	74.88
59	Jordan	78.13	80.46	76.06
60	Peru	78.12	80.45	75.82
61	Colombia	78.09	80.77	75.36
62	Lebanon	78.08	79.99	76.02
63	Iran	78.05	79.99	76.22
64	Antigua Bar	77.94	80.6	74.93
65	Sri Lanka	77.85	80.9	74.65
66	Turkey	77.82	80.82	74.94
67	Ecuador	77.76	80.46	75.08
68	Argentina	77.69	80.16	75.14
69	Nth Maced	77.68	79.83	75.41
70	Guam	77.63	81.74	73.89
71	Montenegro	77.43	80.6	74.12
72	FrenchGuian	77.37	80.3	74.52
73	Hungary	77.33	80.46	74.07
74	Curaçao	77.17	81.1	72.87
75	Serbia	77.14	80.35	73.89
76	Malaysia	76.99	79.67	74.63
77	Tunisia	76.9	79.5	74.34
78	Thailand	76.83	81.17	72.65
79	Algeria	76.69	78.13	75.3
80	Aruba	76.64	79.06	73.99
81	Barbados	76.49	78.91	73.93
82	Latvia	76.48	80.72	71.94
85	Lithuania	76.32	80.92	71.61
86	Romania	76.25	79.82	72.74
87	Brazil	76.2	79.3	73.14
88	Armenia	76.01	79.73	71.76
89	Bulgaria	75.96	79.51	72.52
90	US Virgin Is	75.92	81.6	70.95
91	Morocco	75.68	77.96	73.54
92	Brunei	75.67	77.9	73.65
93	Grenada	75.52	78.64	72.67
94	Mexico	75.45	78.17	72.63
95	Mauritius	75.27	78.5	72.28
96	Nicaragua	75.27	77.74	72.64
97	Bangladesh	75.19	76.94	73.55
98	Vietnam	74.88	79.49	70.23
99	Ukraine	74.86	79.54	69.99
100	Bahamas	74.86	78.46	71.21
101	Georgia	74.82	79.36	69.93
102	Belarus	74.79	79.37	69.94
103	Azerbaijan	74.73	77.44	71.86
104	Kazakhstan	74.67	78.65	70.43
105	Paraguay	74.11	77.22	71.14
106	Dominican Repub	73.99	77.23	70.79
107	Belize	73.9	76.83	71.23
108	Suriname	73.9	77.12	70.73
109	North Korea	73.86	76.02	71.66
110	Trin&Tobago	73.75	76.96	70.64
111	Bhutan	73.53	75.55	71.82
112	Russia	73.52	79.32	67.69
113	Tonga	73.23	76.69	69.64
114	Honduras	73.22	75.85	70.65
115	Libya	73.19	75.26	71.23
116	Seychelles	73.14	76.83	70.23
117	St. Palestine	73.1	76.86	69.72
118	Saint Lucia	73	76.6	69.6
119	Syria	72.99	75.42	70.58
120	Guatemala	72.89	75.21	70.57
121	Venezuela	72.84	76.82	69.05
122	Uzbekistan	72.66	75.7	69.68
123	Iraq	72.53	74.33	70.59
124	El Salvador	72.52	76.7	67.99
125	India	72.48	74.13	70.95
126	Mongolia	72.24	76.88	67.75
127	Tajikistan	72.05	74.29	69.78
128	Egypt	71.99	74.22	69.82
129	Kyrgyzstan	71.97	75.56	68.44
130	Samoa	71.95	73.97	70.06

Apologies for the countries numbered 131-201 that I ran out of space for.

Our World In Data explains a problem. The term "life expectancy" refers to the number of years a person can expect to live. By definition, life expectancy is based on an estimate of the average age that members of a particular population group will be when they die. In practice, however, things are often more complicated. 

An important distinction is the difference between cohort and period life expectancy. The cohort life expectancy is the average life length of a particular group of individuals born in a given year. When we can track a group of people born in a particular year, many decades ago, and observe the exact date in which each one of them died then we can calculate this cohort's life expectancy by simply calculating the average of the ages of all members when they died.

You can think of period life expectancy in a particular year as the age a person born in that year would expect to live if the average age of death did not change over their lifetime. It is of course not possible to know this metric before all members of the cohort have died. Imagine that every over-65 year old in USA died in the 3 years of  Covid, the average age of the U.S population would have gone down marginally by 2024; new-born babies born in 2024 would not have been impacted by the epidemic. Imagine, however, if ever 18-25 year old male died in the Ukrainian War, the country's average age would have fallen severely. And since women live longer on average than men in every country, killing mainly men in war would make the gender difference even more in favour of (lonely) women.

Women enjoying their retirement together

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Because of that, statisticians commonly track members of a particular cohort and predict the average death age for them using a combination of observed mortality rates for past years and projections about mortality rates for future years.

Gloral average life expectancy rose from 32 in 1900.. to 73 in 2023

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