Central African Republic vs Lesotho: Life expectancy

Central African Republic

57.41 years

in 2023

Lesotho

57.37 years

in 2023

Central African Republic rank

233rd

Lesotho rank

234th

Life expectancy over time

Central African Republic
Lesotho

How they compare

Central African Republic currently reports 57.41 years against 57.37 years in Lesotho, a difference of 0.0328 years.

The two have swapped places 7 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Lesotho ahead.

Central African Republic ranks 233rd and Lesotho ranks 234th of 236 countries.

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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.