Burundi vs Cameroon: Life expectancy

Burundi

63.65 years

in 2023

Cameroon

63.7 years

in 2023

Burundi rank

215th

Cameroon rank

214th

Life expectancy over time

Burundi
Cameroon

How they compare

Cameroon currently reports 63.7 years against 63.65 years in Burundi, a difference of 0.0485 years.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Burundi ahead.

Burundi ranks 215th and Cameroon ranks 214th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Burundi
Life expectancy in Cameroon
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.