Benin vs Sierra Leone: Life expectancy

Benin

60.77 years

in 2023

Sierra Leone

61.79 years

in 2023

Benin rank

228th

Sierra Leone rank

225th

Life expectancy over time

Benin
Sierra Leone

How they compare

Sierra Leone currently reports 61.79 years against 60.77 years in Benin, a difference of 1.01 years.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Benin ahead.

Benin ranks 228th and Sierra Leone ranks 225th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Benin
Life expectancy in Sierra Leone
Full country ranking

About this data

Indicator: Life expectancy
Unit: years
Source: Riley (2005); Zijdeman et al. (2015); HMD (2025); UN WPP (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 236 places, 19,452 data points, 1543–2023
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Period life expectancy is the number of years the average person born in a certain year would live if they experienced the same chances of dying at each age as people did that year.