Benin vs Mali: Life expectancy

Benin

60.77 years

in 2023

Mali

60.44 years

in 2023

Benin rank

228th

Mali rank

230th

Life expectancy over time

Benin
Mali

How they compare

Benin currently reports 60.77 years against 60.44 years in Mali, a difference of 0.3344 years.

Across all 74 years both countries report, Benin has been ahead every year.

Benin ranks 228th and Mali ranks 230th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Benin
Life expectancy in Mali
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.