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WORLD STATISTICS

Health

Life expectancy at birth, total (years)

years. Produced by UN DESA World Population Prospects.
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Indicator code
SP.DYN.LE00.IN
Unit
years
Frequency
annual
Default classification
Estimate
Original producer
UN DESA World Population Prospects
Distributed by
World Bank — World Development Indicators
License
CC BY 4.0
Source record
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.LE00.IN

World trend

1990 – 2024

Highest

Most recent year per country (within 5 years of the latest).

  1. 1Monaco86 yrs2024
  2. 2San Marino86 yrs2024
  3. 3Hong Kong SAR, China85 yrs2024
  4. 4Kuwait85 yrs2024
  5. 5Switzerland84 yrs2024
  6. 6Liechtenstein84 yrs2024
  7. 7French Polynesia84 yrs2024
  8. 8Andorra84 yrs2024
  9. 9Sweden84 yrs2024
  10. 10Japan84 yrs2024

Lowest

Most recent year per country (within 5 years of the latest).

  1. 217Nigeria55 yrs2024
  2. 216Chad55 yrs2024
  3. 215Central African Republic58 yrs2024
  4. 214South Sudan58 yrs2024
  5. 213Lesotho58 yrs2024
  6. 212Somalia, Fed. Rep.59 yrs2024
  7. 211Mali61 yrs2024
  8. 210Guinea61 yrs2024
  9. 209Benin61 yrs2024
  10. 208Burkina Faso61 yrs2024

Revision history

Changes to previously published values detected during imports.

No revisions recorded since the first import.