Guinea vs Niger: Life expectancy

Guinea

60.74 years

in 2023

Niger

61.18 years

in 2023

Guinea rank

229th

Niger rank

226th

Life expectancy over time

Guinea
Niger

How they compare

Niger currently reports 61.18 years against 60.74 years in Guinea, a difference of 0.4428 years.

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

Guinea ranks 229th and Niger ranks 226th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Guinea
Life expectancy in Niger
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.