Life Expectancy for Countries, 2011

Updated September 9, 2022 | Infoplease Staff

Find the average life expectancy for each country and the world. As of 2011, the country with the highest life expectancy is Monaco at 89.73 years; the country with the lowest life expectancy is Angola at just 38.76 years.

Rank	Country	Life expectancy
1	Monaco	89.73
2	Macau	84.41
3	San Marino	83.01
4	Andorra	82.43
5	Japan	82.25
6	Guernsey	82.16
7	Singapore	82.14
8	Hong Kong	82.04
9	Australia	81.81
10	Italy	81.77
11	Jersey	81.38
12	Canada	81.38
13	France	81.19
14	Spain	81.17
15	Switzerland	81.07
16	Sweden	81.07
17	Israel	80.96
18	Iceland	80.90
19	Anguilla	80.87
20	Bermuda	80.71
21	Cayman Islands	80.68
22	Isle of Man	80.64
23	New Zealand	80.59
24	Liechtenstein	80.31
25	Norway	80.20
26	Ireland	80.19
27	Germany	80.07
28	United Kingdom	80.05
29	Jordan	80.05
30	Greece	79.92
31	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	79.87
32	Austria	79.78
33	Faroe Islands	79.72
34	Malta	79.72
35	Netherlands	79.68
36	Luxembourg	79.61
37	Belgium	79.51
38	Virgin Islands	79.33
39	Finland	79.27
40	Turks and Caicos Islands	79.11
41	Korea, South	79.05
42	Wallis and Futuna	78.98
43	Puerto Rico	78.92
44	European Union	78.82
45	Bosnia and Herzegovina	78.81
46	Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha	78.76
47	Gibraltar	78.68
48	Denmark	78.63
49	Portugal	78.54
50	United States	78.37
51	Taiwan	78.32
52	Bahrain	78.15
53	Cyprus	77.82
54	Panama	77.79
55	Costa Rica	77.72
56	Chile	77.70
57	Cuba	77.70
58	Libya	77.65
59	British Virgin Islands	77.63
60	Albania	77.41
61	Dominican Republic	77.31
62	Slovenia	77.30
63	Czech Republic	77.19
64	Georgia	77.12
65	French Polynesia	77.10
66	Kuwait	77.09
67	Northern Mariana Islands	77.08
68	Argentina	76.95
69	Saint Lucia	76.84
70	New Caledonia	76.75
71	United Arab Emirates	76.51
72	Mexico	76.47
73	Uruguay	76.21
74	Paraguay	76.19
75	Brunei	76.17
76	Poland	76.05
77	Dominica	75.98
78	Morocco	75.90
79	Slovakia	75.83
80	Croatia	75.79
81	Sri Lanka	75.73
82	Ecuador	75.73
83	Aruba	75.72
84	Qatar	75.70
85	Antigua and Barbuda	75.48
86	Lithuania	75.34
87	Tonga	75.16
88	Macedonia	75.14
89	West Bank	75.01
90	Lebanon	75.01
91	Tunisia	75.01
92	Hungary	74.79
93	Cook Islands	74.70
94	Syria	74.69
95	China	74.68
96	Saint Kitts and Nevis	74.60
97	Colombia	74.55
98	Algeria	74.50
99	Mauritius	74.48
100	Maldives	74.45
101	Barbados	74.34
102	Serbia	74.32
103	Suriname	74.22
104	Oman	74.22
105	American Samoa	74.21
106	Solomon Islands	74.18
107	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	74.15
108	Saudi Arabia	74.11
109	Romania	73.98
110	Venezuela	73.93
111	Gaza Strip	73.92
112	Malaysia	73.79
113	Thailand	73.60
114	Bulgaria	73.59
115	Seychelles	73.52
116	Jamaica	73.45
117	El Salvador	73.44
118	Estonia	73.33
119	Armenia	73.23
120	Montserrat	73.16
121	Grenada	73.04
122	Latvia	72.68
123	Egypt	72.66
124	Brazil	72.53
125	Uzbekistan	72.51
126	Turkey	72.50
127	Peru	72.47
128	Samoa	72.40
129	Vietnam	72.18
130	Nicaragua	71.90
131	Palau	71.78
132	Marshall Islands	71.76
133	Philippines	71.66
134	Micronesia, Federated States of	71.52
135	Trinidad and Tobago	71.37
136	Moldova	71.37
137	Indonesia	71.33
138	Fiji	71.31
139	Belarus	71.20
140	Bahamas, The	71.18
141	Greenland	70.96
142	Guatemala	70.88
143	Cape Verde	70.70
144	Honduras	70.61
145	Iraq	70.55
146	Iran	70.06
147	Kyrgyzstan	70.04
148	Bangladesh	69.75
149	Korea, North	68.89
150	Ukraine	68.58
151	Turkmenistan	68.52
152	Kazakhstan	68.51
153	Mongolia	68.31
154	Belize	68.23
155	Timor-Leste	67.95
156	Bolivia	67.57
157	Azerbaijan	67.36
158	Bhutan	67.30
159	Guyana	67.08
160	India	66.80
161	Russia	66.29
162	Papua New Guinea	66.24
163	Nepal	66.16
164	Tajikistan	66.03
165	Pakistan	65.99
166	Nauru	65.35
167	Burma	64.88
168	Tuvalu	64.75
169	Vanuatu	64.70
170	Kiribati	64.39
171	Comoros	64.20
172	Yemen	63.74
173	Madagascar	63.63
174	Gambia, The	63.51
175	Sao Tome and Principe	63.11
176	Togo	62.71
177	Cambodia	62.67
178	Eritrea	62.52
179	Laos	62.39
180	Equatorial Guinea	62.37
181	Haiti	62.17
182	Djibouti	61.14
183	Mauritania	61.14
184	Western Sahara	61.13
185	Ghana	61.00
186	Benin	59.84
187	Senegal	59.78
188	Kenya	59.48
189	Burundi	58.78
190	Guinea	58.11
191	Botswana	58.05
192	Rwanda	58.02
193	Liberia	57.00
194	Cote d'Ivoire	56.78
195	Ethiopia	56.19
196	Sierra Leone	56.13
197	Sudan	55.42
198	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	55.33
199	Congo, Republic of the	54.91
200	Cameroon	54.39
201	Burkina Faso	53.70
202	Niger	53.40
203	Uganda	53.24
204	Tanzania	52.85
205	Mali	52.61
206	Gabon	52.49
207	Zambia	52.36
208	Namibia	52.19
209	Mozambique	51.78
210	Malawi	51.70
211	Lesotho	51.63
212	Somalia	50.40
213	Central African Republic	50.07
214	Zimbabwe	49.64
215	South Africa	49.33
216	Guinea-Bissau	48.70
217	Swaziland	48.66
218	Chad	48.33
219	Nigeria	47.56
220	Afghanistan	45.02
221	Angola	38.76