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Where lives are longest Life expectancy at birth, from the UN WPP 2024 complete life tables (2023, both sexes). It describes spending a whole life under that year's death rates — not a forecast for anyone.
Fiji: 67.3 years Tanzania: 67.0 years Canada: 82.6 years United States: 79.3 years Kazakhstan: 74.4 years Uzbekistan: 72.4 years Papua New Guinea: 66.1 years Indonesia: 71.1 years Argentina: 77.4 years Chile: 81.0 years Congo - Kinshasa: 61.9 years Somalia: 58.8 years Kenya: 63.7 years Sudan: 66.3 years Chad: 55.1 years Haiti: 64.9 years Dominican Republic: 73.7 years Russia: 73.1 years Bahamas: 74.5 years Norway: 83.3 years Greenland: 70.1 years Timor-Leste: 67.7 years South Africa: 66.1 years Lesotho: 57.4 years Mexico: 75.1 years Uruguay: 78.0 years Brazil: 75.8 years Bolivia: 68.6 years Peru: 77.7 years Colombia: 77.7 years Panama: 79.5 years Costa Rica: 80.7 years Nicaragua: 74.9 years Honduras: 72.9 years El Salvador: 72.1 years Guatemala: 72.6 years Belize: 73.6 years Venezuela: 72.5 years Guyana: 70.2 years Suriname: 73.6 years France: 83.3 years Ecuador: 77.4 years Puerto Rico: 81.6 years Jamaica: 71.5 years Cuba: 78.0 years Zimbabwe: 62.8 years Botswana: 69.2 years Namibia: 67.4 years Senegal: 68.7 years Mali: 60.5 years Mauritania: 68.5 years Benin: 60.8 years Niger: 61.2 years Nigeria: 54.5 years Cameroon: 63.7 years Togo: 62.8 years Ghana: 65.5 years Côte d’Ivoire: 62.0 years Guinea: 60.8 years Guinea-Bissau: 64.1 years Liberia: 62.2 years Sierra Leone: 61.8 years Burkina Faso: 61.1 years Central African Republic: 57.4 years Congo - Brazzaville: 65.8 years Gabon: 68.3 years Equatorial Guinea: 63.7 years Zambia: 66.4 years Malawi: 67.4 years Mozambique: 63.6 years Eswatini: 64.1 years Angola: 64.6 years Burundi: 63.7 years Israel: 82.3 years Lebanon: 77.8 years Madagascar: 63.6 years Palestinian Territories: 65.2 years Gambia: 65.9 years Tunisia: 76.5 years Algeria: 76.3 years Jordan: 77.8 years United Arab Emirates: 82.9 years Qatar: 82.4 years Kuwait: 80.4 years Iraq: 72.3 years Oman: 80.0 years Vanuatu: 71.5 years Cambodia: 70.7 years Thailand: 76.4 years Laos: 69.0 years Myanmar (Burma): 66.9 years Vietnam: 74.6 years North Korea: 73.6 years South Korea: 84.2 years Mongolia: 71.7 years India: 72.0 years Bangladesh: 74.7 years Bhutan: 73.0 years Nepal: 70.4 years Pakistan: 67.7 years Afghanistan: 66.0 years Tajikistan: 71.8 years Kyrgyzstan: 71.7 years Turkmenistan: 70.1 years Iran: 77.7 years Syria: 72.1 years Armenia: 75.7 years Sweden: 83.2 years Belarus: 74.4 years Ukraine: 73.3 years Poland: 78.6 years Austria: 81.9 years Hungary: 77.0 years Moldova: 71.2 years Romania: 75.9 years Lithuania: 76.0 years Latvia: 76.2 years Estonia: 79.1 years Germany: 81.4 years Bulgaria: 75.6 years Greece: 81.8 years Türkiye: 77.1 years Albania: 79.6 years Croatia: 78.6 years Switzerland: 83.9 years Luxembourg: 82.2 years Belgium: 82.1 years Netherlands: 82.1 years Portugal: 82.3 years Spain: 83.6 years Ireland: 82.4 years New Caledonia: 78.8 years Solomon Islands: 70.5 years New Zealand: 82.1 years Australia: 83.9 years Sri Lanka: 77.5 years China: 78.0 years Italy: 83.7 years Denmark: 81.9 years United Kingdom: 81.3 years Iceland: 82.7 years Azerbaijan: 74.4 years Georgia: 74.5 years Philippines: 69.8 years Malaysia: 76.6 years Brunei: 75.3 years Slovenia: 81.6 years Finland: 81.9 years Slovakia: 78.3 years Czechia: 79.8 years Eritrea: 68.6 years Japan: 84.6 years Paraguay: 73.8 years Yemen: 69.3 years Saudi Arabia: 78.7 years Cyprus: 81.6 years Morocco: 75.3 years Egypt: 71.6 years Libya: 69.3 years Ethiopia: 67.3 years Djibouti: 66.0 years Uganda: 68.2 years Rwanda: 67.8 years Bosnia & Herzegovina: 77.8 years North Macedonia: 77.4 years Serbia: 76.7 years Montenegro: 77.1 years Trinidad & Tobago: 73.5 years South Sudan: 57.6 years
54 years
87 years
Grey marks the 7 countries and territories on the map that we have no life table for. Five longest-lived countries Monaco 86.2 San Marino 85.6 Hong Kong SAR China 85.3 Japan 84.6 South Korea 84.2 Five shortest-lived countries Nigeria 54.5 Chad 55.1 Lesotho 57.4 Central African Republic 57.4 South Sudan 57.6 Data: UN WPP 2024 complete life tables · 2023 · both sexes.