Botswana vs Eritrea: Life expectancy

Botswana

69.16 years

in 2023

Eritrea

68.62 years

in 2023

Botswana rank

177th

Eritrea rank

180th

Life expectancy over time

Botswana
Eritrea

How they compare

Botswana currently reports 69.16 years against 68.62 years in Eritrea, a difference of 0.5392 years.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Botswana ahead.

Botswana ranks 177th and Eritrea ranks 180th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Botswana
Life expectancy in Eritrea
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.