Life expectancy at birth, projections by country

Period life expectancy at birth. Future projections are based on the UN's medium scenario.

Countries reporting
229
Highest
94.67 years
Monaco
Lowest
64.72 years
Nigeria
Median
86.55 years
Years covered
77
2024–2100
Data points
18,172

What the numbers show

Life expectancy at birth, projections is currently reported for 229 countries. The highest value is 94.67 years in Monaco; the lowest is 64.72 years in Nigeria.

The median across all reporting countries is 86.55 years, and the mean is 84.59 years.

Life expectancy at birth, projections: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Monaco 94.67 years 2100 up 1.1% rising
2 Hong Kong 94.42 years 2100 up 1.1% rising
3 Japan 94.4 years 2100 up 1.3% rising
4 San Marino 93.98 years 2100 up 1.1% rising
5 South Korea 93.14 years 2100 up 1.3% rising
6 Andorra 93.01 years 2100 up 1.2% rising
8 Spain 92.87 years 2100 up 1.2% rising
9 Switzerland 92.79 years 2100 up 1.2% rising
10 Italy 92.77 years 2100 up 1.2% rising
11 Singapore 92.7 years 2100 up 1.3% rising
12 Macao 92.65 years 2100 up 1.1% rising
13 Australia 92.62 years 2100 up 1.1% rising
14 French Polynesia 92.5 years 2100 up 1.1% rising
15 Gibraltar 92.4 years 2100 up 1.2% rising
17 Saint Barthelemy 92.31 years 2100 up 1.1% rising
18 Sweden 92.18 years 2100 up 1.1% rising
19 France 92.14 years 2100 up 1.2% rising
20 Norway 92.1 years 2100 up 1.2% rising
21 Reunion 92.03 years 2100 up 1.1% rising
22 Iceland 92.01 years 2100 up 1.2% rising
23 Vatican 92.01 years 2100 up 1.1% rising
24 Portugal 91.87 years 2100 up 1.2% rising
26 Canada 91.75 years 2100 up 1.2% rising
27 Guernsey 91.72 years 2100 up 1.1% rising
28 Maldives 91.61 years 2100 up 1.2% rising
29 Bermuda 91.58 years 2100 up 1.2% rising
30 United Arab Emirates 91.56 years 2100 up 1.1% rising
31 Israel 91.55 years 2100 up 1.2% rising
32 Netherlands 91.53 years 2100 up 1.2% rising
33 Austria 91.53 years 2100 up 1.2% rising
34 Belgium 91.42 years 2100 up 1.2% rising
35 Greece 91.39 years 2100 up 1.2% rising
36 Cyprus 91.36 years 2100 up 1.2% rising
37 Faroe Islands 91.34 years 2100 up 1.3% rising
38 Finland 91.27 years 2100 up 1.2% rising
39 Chile 91.25 years 2100 up 1.2% rising
41 Costa Rica 91.16 years 2100 up 1.2% rising
43 Denmark 91.13 years 2100 up 1.2% rising
44 Slovenia 91.08 years 2100 up 1.2% rising
45 Puerto Rico 91.04 years 2100 up 1.2% rising
46 New Zealand 90.99 years 2100 up 1.1% rising
47 Qatar 90.88 years 2100 up 1.1% rising
48 Taiwan 90.87 years 2100 up 1.3% rising
49 Germany 90.78 years 2100 up 1.2% rising
51 Cayman Islands 90.66 years 2100 up 1.2% rising
52 Kuwait 90.6 years 2100 up 1.1% rising
53 United Kingdom 90.59 years 2100 up 1.2% rising
54 Bahrain 90.53 years 2100 up 1.1% rising
55 Oman 90.4 years 2100 up 1.1% rising
56 Isle of Man 90.36 years 2100 up 1.2% rising
57 Saudi Arabia 90.34 years 2100 up 1.2% rising
58 Saint Martin (French part) 90.15 years 2100 up 1.0% rising
59 Panama 90.13 years 2100 up 1.3% rising
60 Albania 90 years 2100 up 1.2% rising
61 Jersey 89.9 years 2100 up 1.2% rising
62 China 89.8 years 2100 up 1.3% rising
63 Anguilla 89.65 years 2100 up 1.3% rising
64 Falkland Islands 89.61 years 2100 up 1.1% rising
65 Czechia 89.44 years 2100 up 1.2% rising
66 Iran 89.3 years 2100 up 1.3% rising
67 Estonia 89.19 years 2100 up 1.3% rising
68 United States 89.17 years 2100 up 1.2% rising
69 Poland 89 years 2100 up 1.2% rising
70 Croatia 88.96 years 2100 up 1.3% rising
71 Colombia 88.87 years 2100 up 1.2% rising
72 Cuba 88.82 years 2100 up 1.2% rising
73 Bosnia and Herzegovina 88.82 years 2100 up 1.3% rising
74 Slovakia 88.76 years 2100 up 1.3% rising
75 New Caledonia 88.74 years 2100 up 1.2% rising
76 Sri Lanka 88.71 years 2100 up 1.4% rising
77 Turks and Caicos Islands 88.68 years 2100 up 1.2% rising
78 Northern Mariana Islands 88.67 years 2100 up 1.2% rising
79 Jordan 88.61 years 2100 up 1.3% rising
80 Turkey 88.6 years 2100 up 1.2% rising
81 Uruguay 88.47 years 2100 up 1.3% rising
82 Thailand 88.41 years 2100 up 1.4% rising
83 Antigua and Barbuda 88.38 years 2100 up 1.3% rising
84 Guam 88.37 years 2100 up 1.3% rising
85 Peru 88.35 years 2100 up 1.2% rising
86 Bangladesh 88.34 years 2100 up 1.3% rising
87 Tunisia 88.31 years 2100 up 1.3% rising
88 Serbia 88.29 years 2100 up 1.4% rising
89 Algeria 88.12 years 2100 up 1.3% rising
90 French Guiana 88.12 years 2100 up 1.3% rising
91 Ecuador 88.03 years 2100 up 1.2% rising
92 Hungary 88.03 years 2100 up 1.4% rising
93 Bonaire Sint Eustatius and Saba 87.93 years 2100 up 1.3% rising
94 British Virgin Islands 87.91 years 2100 up 1.3% rising
95 Malaysia 87.88 years 2100 up 1.4% rising
96 Montenegro 87.86 years 2100 up 1.3% rising
97 Argentina 87.74 years 2100 up 1.3% rising
98 Wallis and Futuna 87.69 years 2100 up 1.1% rising
100 Lebanon 87.59 years 2100 up 1.3% rising
101 Cape Verde 87.57 years 2100 up 1.4% rising
102 Palestine 87.55 years 2100 up 1.2% rising
103 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 87.54 years 2100 up 1.3% rising
104 Saint Helena 87.53 years 2100 up 1.3% rising
105 North Macedonia 87.5 years 2100 up 1.3% rising
106 United States Virgin Islands 87.33 years 2100 up 1.4% rising
107 Curacao 87.19 years 2100 up 1.3% rising
108 Montserrat 87.01 years 2100 up 1.3% rising
109 Mauritius 86.98 years 2100 up 1.5% rising
110 Bhutan 86.93 years 2100 up 1.5% rising
111 Romania 86.92 years 2100 up 1.4% rising
112 Sint Maarten (Dutch part) 86.91 years 2100 up 1.3% rising
113 Barbados 86.86 years 2100 up 1.3% rising
114 Brazil 86.8 years 2100 up 1.3% rising
115 Mexico 86.78 years 2100 up 1.4% rising
116 Lithuania 86.75 years 2100 up 1.4% rising
117 Cook Islands 86.71 years 2100 up 1.4% rising
118 Aruba 86.7 years 2100 up 1.4% rising
119 Latvia 86.59 years 2100 up 1.3% rising
120 Libya 86.57 years 2100 up 1.4% rising
121 Armenia 86.55 years 2100 up 1.4% rising
122 Brunei 86.55 years 2100 up 1.4% rising
123 Bulgaria 86.52 years 2100 up 1.4% rising
124 Tokelau 86.47 years 2100 up 1.3% rising
125 Morocco 86.25 years 2100 up 1.3% rising
126 Vietnam 86.08 years 2100 up 1.5% rising
127 Grenada 85.96 years 2100 up 1.4% rising
128 Belarus 85.86 years 2100 up 1.4% rising
129 Nicaragua 85.85 years 2100 up 1.4% rising
130 Mongolia 85.66 years 2100 up 1.6% rising
131 Azerbaijan 85.58 years 2100 up 1.5% rising
132 Ukraine 85.58 years 2100 up 1.4% rising
133 Georgia 85.46 years 2100 up 1.4% rising
134 Belize 85.4 years 2100 up 1.6% rising
135 Bahamas 85.34 years 2100 up 1.4% rising
136 El Salvador 85.33 years 2100 up 1.6% rising
137 India 85.3 years 2100 up 1.6% rising
138 Kazakhstan 85.15 years 2100 up 1.5% rising
139 Russia 84.98 years 2100 up 1.5% rising
140 Honduras 84.62 years 2100 up 1.6% rising
141 Suriname 84.53 years 2100 up 1.5% rising
142 Seychelles 84.26 years 2100 up 1.6% rising
143 Paraguay 84.24 years 2100 up 1.5% rising
144 Venezuela 84.17 years 2100 up 1.6% rising
145 Trinidad and Tobago 84.14 years 2100 up 1.5% rising
146 Syria 83.97 years 2100 up 1.5% rising
147 North Korea 83.78 years 2100 up 1.5% rising
148 Saint Lucia 83.76 years 2100 up 1.6% rising
149 Nepal 83.68 years 2100 up 1.7% rising
150 Tonga 83.53 years 2100 up 1.5% rising
151 Egypt 83.47 years 2100 up 1.7% rising
152 Dominican Republic 83.46 years 2100 up 1.4% rising
153 American Samoa 83.32 years 2100 up 1.5% rising
154 Guatemala 83.08 years 2100 up 1.5% rising
155 Saint Kitts and Nevis 83.03 years 2100 up 1.6% rising
156 Kyrgyzstan 83 years 2100 up 1.7% rising
157 Vanuatu 83 years 2100 up 1.6% rising
158 Uzbekistan 82.99 years 2100 up 1.6% rising
159 Western Sahara 82.97 years 2100 up 1.5% rising
160 Dominica 82.6 years 2100 up 1.6% rising
161 Eritrea 81.99 years 2100 up 1.8% rising
162 Tajikistan 81.94 years 2100 up 1.5% rising
163 Moldova 81.91 years 2100 up 1.6% rising
164 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 81.89 years 2100 up 1.7% rising
165 Indonesia 81.88 years 2100 up 1.7% rising
166 Samoa 81.69 years 2100 up 1.6% rising
167 Jamaica 81.68 years 2100 up 1.6% rising
168 Sao Tome and Principe 81.63 years 2100 up 1.7% rising
169 Iraq 81.58 years 2100 up 1.5% rising
170 Ethiopia 81.56 years 2100 up 1.8% rising
171 Laos 81.32 years 2100 up 1.7% rising
172 Mauritania 81.17 years 2100 up 1.9% rising
173 Cambodia 81.14 years 2100 up 1.6% rising
174 Uganda 81.1 years 2100 up 1.8% rising
175 Senegal 80.87 years 2100 up 1.7% rising
176 Solomon Islands 80.74 years 2100 up 1.6% rising
177 Turkmenistan 80.5 years 2100 up 1.7% rising
178 Guyana 80.43 years 2100 up 1.7% rising
179 Philippines 80.36 years 2100 up 1.8% rising
180 Rwanda 80.27 years 2100 up 1.8% rising
181 Niue 80.16 years 2100 up 1.6% rising
182 Comoros 79.84 years 2100 up 1.8% rising
183 Gabon 79.75 years 2100 up 1.8% rising
184 Greenland 79.74 years 2100 up 1.6% rising
185 Bolivia 79.62 years 2100 up 1.8% rising
186 Tanzania 79.18 years 2100 up 1.8% rising
187 Botswana 79.13 years 2100 up 1.7% rising
188 Myanmar 79.05 years 2100 up 1.8% rising
189 East Timor 79.04 years 2100 up 1.7% rising
190 Yemen 78.87 years 2100 up 1.6% rising
191 Palau 78.75 years 2100 up 1.6% rising
192 Malawi 78.61 years 2100 up 1.7% rising
193 Pakistan 78.17 years 2100 up 1.9% rising
194 Djibouti 78.14 years 2100 up 1.8% rising
195 Sudan 78.1 years 2100 up 1.9% rising
196 Tuvalu 77.68 years 2100 up 1.8% rising
197 Micronesia (country) 77.44 years 2100 up 1.7% rising
198 Congo 77.42 years 2100 up 1.8% rising
199 South Africa 77.33 years 2100 up 1.9% rising
200 Zambia 77.32 years 2100 up 1.7% rising
201 Namibia 77.32 years 2100 up 1.7% rising
202 Afghanistan 77.31 years 2100 up 1.6% rising
203 Zimbabwe 77.19 years 2100 up 2.1% rising
204 Fiji 77.17 years 2100 up 1.7% rising
205 Cameroon 77.09 years 2100 up 1.9% rising
206 Ghana 77.06 years 2100 up 1.8% rising
207 Gambia 76.47 years 2100 up 1.7% rising
208 Marshall Islands 75.98 years 2100 up 1.7% rising
209 Equatorial Guinea 75.39 years 2100 up 1.8% rising
210 Haiti 75.28 years 2100 up 1.7% rising
211 Kiribati 75.12 years 2100 up 1.5% rising
212 Angola 75.03 years 2100 up 1.7% rising
213 Papua New Guinea 74.76 years 2100 up 1.6% rising
214 Madagascar 74.75 years 2100 up 1.7% rising
215 Lesotho 74.68 years 2100 up 2.0% rising
216 Kenya 74.36 years 2100 up 1.8% rising
217 Mozambique 74.17 years 2100 up 1.8% rising
218 Guinea-Bissau 74.05 years 2100 up 1.7% rising
219 Togo 73.88 years 2100 up 1.7% rising
220 Burundi 73.58 years 2100 up 1.6% rising
221 Eswatini 73.21 years 2100 up 1.7% rising
222 Niger 73.06 years 2100 up 1.7% rising
223 Sierra Leone 72.03 years 2100 up 1.7% rising
224 Democratic Republic of Congo 71.92 years 2100 up 1.7% rising
225 Cote d'Ivoire 71.85 years 2100 up 1.6% rising
226 Nauru 71.73 years 2100 up 1.7% rising
227 Burkina Faso 71.61 years 2100 up 1.7% rising
228 Mali 71.53 years 2100 up 1.6% rising
229 Liberia 71.52 years 2100 up 1.5% rising
230 Central African Republic 70.97 years 2100 up 2.0% rising
231 Benin 70.67 years 2100 up 1.6% rising
232 Guinea 70.55 years 2100 up 1.6% rising
233 Somalia 68.56 years 2100 up 1.7% rising
234 South Sudan 66.16 years 2100 up 1.5% rising
235 Chad 65.3 years 2100 up 1.7% rising
236 Nigeria 64.72 years 2100 up 1.7% rising

About this data

Indicator
Life expectancy at birth, projections
Unit
years
Source
UN, World Population Prospects (2024) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
236 places, 18,172 data points, 2024–2100
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Period life expectancy at birth. Future projections are based on the UN's medium scenario.