What is the difference in sex gap in life expectancy at age 45 between Equatorial Guinea and Sierra Leone?

0.03 years, with Equatorial Guinea ahead.

How many years of comparable data are there for Equatorial Guinea and Sierra Leone?

74 years are reported by both, from 1950 to 2023.

Where does this data come from?

Human Mortality Database (2025); UN, World Population Prospects (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data, published as Sex gap in life expectancy at age 45. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

Equatorial Guinea vs Sierra Leone: Sex gap in life expectancy at age 45

Equatorial Guinea

2.15 years

in 2023

Sierra Leone

2.12 years

in 2023

Equatorial Guinea rank

222nd

Sierra Leone rank

223rd

Sex gap in life expectancy at age 45 over time

Equatorial Guinea
Sierra Leone

How they compare

Equatorial Guinea currently reports 2.15 years against 2.12 years in Sierra Leone, a difference of 0.03 years.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Equatorial Guinea ahead.

Equatorial Guinea ranks 222nd and Sierra Leone ranks 223rd of 236 countries.

Equatorial Guinea has averaged higher in every one of the 8 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade	Equatorial Guinea	Sierra Leone	Difference	Ahead
1950s	4.07 years	1.34 years	2.73 years	Equatorial Guinea
1960s	4.05 years	1.28 years	2.76 years	Equatorial Guinea
1970s	4.03 years	1.43 years	2.61 years	Equatorial Guinea
1980s	3.66 years	1.53 years	2.13 years	Equatorial Guinea
1990s	2.13 years	1.96 years	0.1764 years	Equatorial Guinea
2000s	1.71 years	1.64 years	0.0607 years	Equatorial Guinea
2010s	1.96 years	1.56 years	0.3936 years	Equatorial Guinea
2020s	2.31 years	2.07 years	0.2445 years	Equatorial Guinea

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher sex gap in life expectancy at age 45, Equatorial Guinea or Sierra Leone?: Equatorial Guinea, at 2.15 years against 2.12 years in Sierra Leone as of 2023.
What is the difference in sex gap in life expectancy at age 45 between Equatorial Guinea and Sierra Leone?: 0.03 years, with Equatorial Guinea ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Equatorial Guinea and Sierra Leone?: 74 years are reported by both, from 1950 to 2023.
How do Equatorial Guinea and Sierra Leone rank globally for sex gap in life expectancy at age 45?: Equatorial Guinea ranks 222nd and Sierra Leone ranks 223rd of 236 countries.
Where does this data come from?: Human Mortality Database (2025); UN, World Population Prospects (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data, published as Sex gap in life expectancy at age 45. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

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Indicator: Sex gap in life expectancy at age 45
Unit: years
Source: Human Mortality Database (2025); UN, World Population Prospects (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 236 places, 18,722 data points, 1751–2023
Last refreshed: 28 August 2026

Difference in period life expectancy (females - males) at a given age.