Which has higher life expectancy, Equatorial Guinea or Guinea-Bissau?

Guinea-Bissau, at 64.08 years against 63.71 years in Equatorial Guinea as of 2023.

What is the difference in life expectancy between Equatorial Guinea and Guinea-Bissau?

0.37 years, with Guinea-Bissau ahead.

How many years of comparable data are there for Equatorial Guinea and Guinea-Bissau?

74 years are reported by both, from 1950 to 2023.

Where does this data come from?

Riley (2005); Zijdeman et al. (2015); HMD (2025); UN WPP (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data, published as Life expectancy. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

Equatorial Guinea vs Guinea-Bissau: Life expectancy

Equatorial Guinea

63.71 years

in 2023

Guinea-Bissau

64.08 years

in 2023

Equatorial Guinea rank

213th

Guinea-Bissau rank

212th

Life expectancy over time

Equatorial Guinea
Guinea-Bissau

How they compare

Guinea-Bissau currently reports 64.08 years against 63.71 years in Equatorial Guinea, a difference of 0.37 years.

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

Equatorial Guinea ranks 213th and Guinea-Bissau ranks 212th of 236 countries.

Across the 8 decades both report, Equatorial Guinea averaged higher in 7 and Guinea-Bissau in 1.

Head to head by decade

Decade	Equatorial Guinea	Guinea-Bissau	Difference	Ahead
1950s	41.29 years	36.53 years	4.76 years	Equatorial Guinea
1960s	42.52 years	36.68 years	5.84 years	Equatorial Guinea
1970s	39.41 years	40.53 years	1.12 years	Guinea-Bissau
1980s	50.27 years	45.09 years	5.18 years	Equatorial Guinea
1990s	52 years	47.92 years	4.08 years	Equatorial Guinea
2000s	55.59 years	53.17 years	2.42 years	Equatorial Guinea
2010s	60.39 years	59.69 years	0.6955 years	Equatorial Guinea
2020s	62.91 years	62.67 years	0.241 years	Equatorial Guinea

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher life expectancy, Equatorial Guinea or Guinea-Bissau?: Guinea-Bissau, at 64.08 years against 63.71 years in Equatorial Guinea as of 2023.
What is the difference in life expectancy between Equatorial Guinea and Guinea-Bissau?: 0.37 years, with Guinea-Bissau ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Equatorial Guinea and Guinea-Bissau?: 74 years are reported by both, from 1950 to 2023.
How do Equatorial Guinea and Guinea-Bissau rank globally for life expectancy?: Equatorial Guinea ranks 213th and Guinea-Bissau ranks 212th of 236 countries.
Where does this data come from?: Riley (2005); Zijdeman et al. (2015); HMD (2025); UN WPP (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data, published as Life expectancy. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

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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: 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.