Countries by life expectancy (2026)

Life expectancy at birth summarises a country's mortality in one number. Monaco leads this ranking at 86.5 years; Nigeria sits last at 54.6 — a gap of 32 years between the top and bottom of the table.

53 countries and territories now exceed 80 years. The figure is an average across a whole birth cohort: high child mortality pulls it down sharply, which is why gains in poorer countries come fastest from infant and maternal health.

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Countries by life expectancy (2026)
#	Country	Life expectancy	Population	Median age
1	Monaco	86.5 yrs	38,341	53.6 yrs
2	San Marino	85.8 yrs	34,109	48.6 yrs
3	Hong Kong	85.4 yrs	7,498,900	47.4 yrs
4	Kuwait	84.6 yrs	4,865,298	34.8 yrs
5	Switzerland	84.4 yrs	9,092,436	42.9 yrs
6	Liechtenstein	84.2 yrs	41,024	44.5 yrs
7	French Polynesia	84.2 yrs	282,465	36.1 yrs
8	Andorra	84.2 yrs	82,904	43.9 yrs
9	Sweden	84.1 yrs	10,596,620	40.3 yrs
10	Japan	84.0 yrs	123,366,734	49.8 yrs
11	Italy	84.0 yrs	58,915,656	48.2 yrs
12	Spain	83.9 yrs	49,355,143	45.9 yrs
13	South Korea	83.6 yrs	51,684,564	45.6 yrs
14	Gibraltar	83.6 yrs	40,126	38.8 yrs
15	Singapore	83.4 yrs	6,111,175	36.2 yrs
16	Macao	83.3 yrs	685,900	39.6 yrs
17	Israel	83.2 yrs	10,122,800	29.2 yrs
18	Luxembourg	83.2 yrs	686,970	39.5 yrs
19	Norway	83.2 yrs	5,610,870	39.8 yrs
20	Faroe Islands	83.1 yrs	54,900	37.1 yrs
21	United Arab Emirates	83.1 yrs	11,513,149	31.6 yrs
22	Australia	83.1 yrs	27,614,411	38.3 yrs
23	Ireland	83.0 yrs	5,484,367	39.0 yrs
24	France	83.0 yrs	68,720,337	42.3 yrs
25	Malta	83.0 yrs	579,704	41.1 yrs
26	Iceland	82.8 yrs	392,404	36.2 yrs
27	Qatar	82.5 yrs	2,972,215	33.5 yrs
28	Bermuda	82.5 yrs	64,555	46.0 yrs
29	Portugal	82.4 yrs	10,804,871	46.9 yrs
30	Finland	82.3 yrs	5,646,436	43.2 yrs
31	Belgium	82.3 yrs	11,941,781	41.9 yrs
32	Slovenia	82.3 yrs	2,130,986	44.7 yrs
33	Denmark	82.3 yrs	6,009,169	41.3 yrs
34	Canada	82.1 yrs	41,651,653	40.6 yrs
35	New Zealand	82.0 yrs	5,324,700	37.7 yrs
36	Austria	82.0 yrs	9,208,163	43.6 yrs
37	Netherlands	82.0 yrs	18,087,633	41.5 yrs
38	Puerto Rico	81.9 yrs	3,184,835	45.8 yrs
39	Greece	81.8 yrs	10,413,962	46.8 yrs
40	Cyprus	81.8 yrs	1,370,754	38.6 yrs
41	Bahrain	81.4 yrs	1,600,366	33.3 yrs
42	United Kingdom	81.4 yrs	69,487,000	40.1 yrs
43	Chile	81.4 yrs	19,859,921	36.9 yrs
44	Maldives	81.3 yrs	529,676	32.7 yrs
45	Channel Islands	81.2 yrs	168,466	–
46	Isle of Man	81.1 yrs	84,118	46.1 yrs
47	Costa Rica	81.0 yrs	5,152,950	35.2 yrs
48	Germany	80.8 yrs	83,491,249	45.5 yrs
49	U.S. Virgin Islands	80.8 yrs	103,792	44.8 yrs
50	Taiwan	80.7 yrs	23,213,962	44.8 yrs
51	Cayman Islands	80.5 yrs	75,844	38.7 yrs
52	Saint Martin	80.4 yrs	24,941	42.5 yrs
53	Oman	80.3 yrs	5,494,691	29.7 yrs
54	Czech Republic	80.0 yrs	10,886,878	43.8 yrs
55	Panama	79.8 yrs	4,571,189	30.3 yrs
56	Albania	79.8 yrs	2,349,580	37.3 yrs
57	Estonia	79.3 yrs	1,366,475	42.8 yrs
58	Saudi Arabia	79.0 yrs	36,973,555	29.6 yrs
59	Northern Mariana Islands	79.0 yrs	43,541	38.0 yrs
60	Croatia	78.9 yrs	3,876,200	45.3 yrs
61	New Caledonia	78.9 yrs	295,333	34.5 yrs
62	United States	78.9 yrs	341,784,857	38.5 yrs
63	Poland	78.4 yrs	36,435,861	42.5 yrs
64	Slovakia	78.4 yrs	5,413,813	42.3 yrs
65	Armenia	78.3 yrs	3,086,700	36.6 yrs
66	Uruguay	78.3 yrs	3,384,688	36.4 yrs
67	Cuba	78.3 yrs	10,937,203	42.2 yrs
68	Kosovo	78.2 yrs	1,576,876	32.6 yrs
69	Turks and Caicos Islands	78.2 yrs	46,855	39.2 yrs
70	Bosnia and Herzegovina	78.0 yrs	3,140,095	45.7 yrs
71	China	78.0 yrs	1,406,585,000	40.1 yrs
72	Jordan	78.0 yrs	11,520,684	24.7 yrs
73	Peru	77.9 yrs	34,576,665	30.2 yrs
74	Lebanon	77.9 yrs	5,849,421	28.8 yrs
75	Colombia	77.9 yrs	53,425,635	32.5 yrs
76	Montenegro	77.9 yrs	623,129	40.0 yrs
77	Iran	77.9 yrs	92,417,681	34.0 yrs
78	Antigua and Barbuda	77.8 yrs	94,209	36.3 yrs
79	Sri Lanka	77.7 yrs	21,756,000	33.3 yrs
80	Ecuador	77.6 yrs	18,289,896	29.3 yrs
81	Argentina	77.5 yrs	45,851,378	32.9 yrs
82	British Virgin Islands	77.4 yrs	39,732	38.6 yrs
83	Turkey	77.4 yrs	85,878,556	33.5 yrs
84	Guam	77.4 yrs	168,999	31.5 yrs
85	Lithuania	77.2 yrs	2,888,774	42.3 yrs
86	Curaçao	77.0 yrs	156,263	38.7 yrs
87	Malaysia	76.8 yrs	35,977,838	31.0 yrs
88	Hungary	76.7 yrs	9,514,251	43.9 yrs
89	Tunisia	76.7 yrs	12,348,573	32.9 yrs
90	North Macedonia	76.6 yrs	1,820,909	41.0 yrs
91	Thailand	76.6 yrs	71,619,863	40.6 yrs
92	Sint Maarten	76.5 yrs	43,923	41.8 yrs
93	Aruba	76.5 yrs	108,785	41.5 yrs
94	Algeria	76.5 yrs	47,435,312	28.6 yrs
95	Romania	76.5 yrs	19,020,271	43.2 yrs
96	Latvia	76.4 yrs	1,847,785	43.6 yrs
97	Barbados	76.3 yrs	282,623	39.4 yrs
98	Seychelles	76.3 yrs	122,730	34.3 yrs
99	Cape Verde	76.2 yrs	527,326	29.0 yrs
100	Brazil	76.0 yrs	212,812,405	34.8 yrs
101	Serbia	76.0 yrs	6,549,143	44.4 yrs
102	Bulgaria	75.8 yrs	6,433,302	44.8 yrs
103	Brunei	75.5 yrs	466,330	32.7 yrs
104	Morocco	75.5 yrs	38,430,770	29.8 yrs
105	Grenada	75.4 yrs	117,303	34.4 yrs
106	Mexico	75.3 yrs	131,946,900	29.6 yrs
107	Nicaragua	75.1 yrs	7,007,502	26.0 yrs
108	Bangladesh	74.9 yrs	175,686,899	26.0 yrs
109	Vietnam	74.7 yrs	101,598,527	33.4 yrs
110	Bahamas	74.7 yrs	403,033	35.3 yrs
111	Ukraine	74.7 yrs	38,980,376	41.8 yrs
112	Georgia	74.7 yrs	3,935,766	37.3 yrs
113	Azerbaijan	74.6 yrs	10,246,996	33.6 yrs
114	Kazakhstan	74.5 yrs	20,843,754	29.7 yrs
115	Belarus	74.4 yrs	9,085,991	41.3 yrs
116	Paraguay	74.0 yrs	7,013,078	27.0 yrs
117	Dominican Republic	73.9 yrs	11,520,487	28.3 yrs
118	Mauritius	73.8 yrs	1,243,741	37.8 yrs
119	Suriname	73.8 yrs	639,850	28.6 yrs
120	North Korea	73.7 yrs	26,571,036	36.5 yrs
121	Belize	73.7 yrs	422,924	26.9 yrs
122	Trinidad and Tobago	73.6 yrs	1,367,764	37.7 yrs
123	Russia	73.4 yrs	143,513,328	40.3 yrs
124	Bhutan	73.3 yrs	796,682	30.5 yrs
125	Tonga	73.1 yrs	103,742	20.8 yrs
126	Honduras	73.0 yrs	11,005,850	24.2 yrs
127	American Samoa	73.0 yrs	46,029	29.0 yrs
128	Saint Lucia	72.9 yrs	180,149	34.6 yrs
129	Guatemala	72.8 yrs	18,687,881	23.4 yrs
130	Venezuela	72.7 yrs	28,516,896	29.4 yrs
131	Syria	72.6 yrs	25,620,427	23.3 yrs
132	Uzbekistan	72.5 yrs	37,053,428	27.0 yrs
133	Iraq	72.4 yrs	47,020,774	20.8 yrs
134	Kyrgyzstan	72.4 yrs	7,343,064	25.4 yrs
135	Mongolia	72.4 yrs	3,568,978	26.9 yrs
136	El Salvador	72.3 yrs	6,365,503	27.9 yrs
137	Saint Kitts and Nevis	72.3 yrs	46,922	36.2 yrs
138	India	72.2 yrs	1,463,865,525	28.8 yrs
139	Tajikistan	71.9 yrs	10,786,734	22.2 yrs
140	Samoa	71.8 yrs	219,306	19.8 yrs
141	Egypt	71.8 yrs	118,365,995	24.5 yrs
142	Vanuatu	71.7 yrs	335,169	20.3 yrs
143	Jamaica	71.6 yrs	2,837,077	32.8 yrs
144	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	71.4 yrs	99,924	34.4 yrs
145	Moldova	71.3 yrs	2,360,527	38.6 yrs
146	Indonesia	71.3 yrs	285,721,236	30.4 yrs
147	Dominica	71.3 yrs	65,871	36.3 yrs
148	Libya	71.1 yrs	7,458,555	27.7 yrs
149	Cambodia	70.8 yrs	17,847,982	26.2 yrs
150	Solomon Islands	70.7 yrs	838,645	20.7 yrs
151	Nepal	70.6 yrs	29,618,118	25.3 yrs
152	Guyana	70.3 yrs	835,986	26.2 yrs
153	Greenland	70.3 yrs	56,831	35.1 yrs
154	Turkmenistan	70.2 yrs	7,618,847	26.9 yrs
155	Philippines	70.0 yrs	116,786,962	26.1 yrs
156	São Tomé and Príncipe	69.9 yrs	240,254	19.5 yrs
157	Yemen	69.4 yrs	41,773,878	18.4 yrs
158	Palau	69.4 yrs	17,663	38.5 yrs
159	Botswana	69.3 yrs	2,562,122	23.4 yrs
160	Laos	69.2 yrs	7,873,046	24.9 yrs
161	Palestine	69.2 yrs	5,413,596	20.1 yrs
162	Senegal	68.9 yrs	18,931,966	19.6 yrs
163	Eritrea	68.9 yrs	3,607,003	19.2 yrs
164	Bolivia	68.7 yrs	12,581,843	25.2 yrs
165	Mauritania	68.7 yrs	5,315,065	17.4 yrs
166	Gabon	68.5 yrs	2,593,130	21.5 yrs
167	Uganda	68.5 yrs	51,384,894	16.9 yrs
168	Rwanda	68.0 yrs	14,569,341	19.9 yrs
169	Timor-Leste	67.9 yrs	1,418,517	21.7 yrs
170	Pakistan	67.8 yrs	255,219,554	20.6 yrs
171	Ethiopia	67.6 yrs	135,472,051	19.1 yrs
172	Malawi	67.6 yrs	22,216,120	18.1 yrs
173	Namibia	67.5 yrs	3,092,816	21.3 yrs
174	Fiji	67.5 yrs	933,154	28.1 yrs
175	Micronesia	67.4 yrs	113,683	23.3 yrs
176	Tuvalu	67.3 yrs	9,492	24.2 yrs
177	Tanzania	67.2 yrs	70,545,865	17.5 yrs
178	Myanmar	67.1 yrs	54,850,648	30.1 yrs
179	Marshall Islands	67.1 yrs	36,282	20.4 yrs
180	Comoros	67.0 yrs	882,847	20.6 yrs
181	Kiribati	66.6 yrs	136,488	22.9 yrs
182	Zambia	66.5 yrs	21,913,874	17.9 yrs
183	Sudan	66.5 yrs	51,662,147	18.5 yrs
184	South Africa	66.3 yrs	64,747,319	28.7 yrs
185	Afghanistan	66.3 yrs	43,844,111	17.3 yrs
186	Papua New Guinea	66.3 yrs	10,762,817	22.8 yrs
187	Djibouti	66.2 yrs	1,184,076	24.9 yrs
188	Gambia	66.1 yrs	2,822,093	18.6 yrs
189	Republic of the Congo	66.0 yrs	6,484,437	18.6 yrs
190	Ghana	65.7 yrs	35,064,272	21.3 yrs
191	Haiti	65.1 yrs	11,906,095	24.1 yrs
192	Angola	64.8 yrs	39,040,039	16.6 yrs
193	Eswatini	64.3 yrs	1,256,174	22.5 yrs
194	Guinea-Bissau	64.3 yrs	2,249,515	19.4 yrs
195	Cameroon	64.0 yrs	29,879,337	18.0 yrs
196	Equatorial Guinea	63.9 yrs	1,938,431	20.9 yrs
197	Madagascar	63.8 yrs	32,740,678	19.2 yrs
198	Kenya	63.8 yrs	57,532,493	20.0 yrs
199	Burundi	63.8 yrs	14,390,003	16.4 yrs
200	Mozambique	63.8 yrs	35,631,653	16.5 yrs
201	Zimbabwe	63.1 yrs	16,950,795	18.1 yrs
202	Togo	62.9 yrs	8,591,626	19.1 yrs
203	Liberia	62.3 yrs	5,731,206	18.8 yrs
204	Nauru	62.3 yrs	12,025	20.2 yrs
205	Ivory Coast	62.1 yrs	32,711,547	18.3 yrs
206	DR Congo	62.1 yrs	112,832,473	15.8 yrs
207	Sierra Leone	62.0 yrs	8,819,794	19.7 yrs
208	Niger	61.4 yrs	27,917,831	15.6 yrs
209	Burkina Faso	61.3 yrs	24,074,580	17.7 yrs
210	Benin	61.0 yrs	14,814,460	18.0 yrs
211	Guinea	60.9 yrs	15,099,727	18.3 yrs
212	Mali	60.7 yrs	25,198,821	15.7 yrs
213	Somalia	59.0 yrs	19,654,739	15.6 yrs
214	Lesotho	57.8 yrs	2,363,325	21.8 yrs
215	South Sudan	57.7 yrs	12,188,788	18.7 yrs
216	Central African Republic	57.7 yrs	5,513,282	14.5 yrs
217	Chad	55.2 yrs	21,003,705	15.8 yrs
218	Nigeria	54.6 yrs	237,527,782	18.1 yrs

Life expectancy at birth, both sexes, latest World Bank estimates; 218 of 218 tracked entities have published values.

Frequently asked questions

Which country has the highest life expectancy?

Monaco has the highest life expectancy at birth in this ranking, at 86.5 years (latest World Bank estimate).

Which country has the lowest life expectancy?

Nigeria has the lowest, at 54.6 years.

How many countries have life expectancy above 80?

53 countries and territories currently exceed 80 years of life expectancy at birth.