Benin vs Niger: Life expectancy

Benin

60.77 years

in 2023

Niger

61.18 years

in 2023

Benin rank

228th

Niger rank

226th

Life expectancy over time

Niger currently reports 61.18 years against 60.77 years in Benin, a difference of 0.4095 years.

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

Benin ranks 228th and Niger ranks 226th of 236 countries.

Indicator: Life expectancy
Unit: years
Source: Human Mortality Database (2025); UN, World Population Prospects (2024) – processed 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: 07 August 2026

The period life expectancy at birth among totals, in a given year.