Belize vs North Korea: Life expectancy

Belize

73.57 years

in 2023

North Korea

73.64 years

in 2023

Belize rank

135th

North Korea rank

133rd

Life expectancy over time

Belize
North Korea

How they compare

North Korea currently reports 73.64 years against 73.57 years in Belize, a difference of 0.0762 years.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Belize ahead.

Belize ranks 135th and North Korea ranks 133rd of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Belize
Life expectancy in North Korea
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: 06 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.