Country Comparison > Life expectancy at birth

Rank	Country	Life expectancy at birth (years)
1	Macau	84.36
2	Andorra	82.51
3	Japan	82.12
4	Singapore	81.98
5	San Marino	81.97
6	Hong Kong	81.86
7	Australia	81.63
8	Canada	81.23
9	France	80.98
10	Sweden	80.86
11	Switzerland	80.85
12	Guernsey	80.77
13	Israel	80.73
14	Iceland	80.67
15	Anguilla	80.65
16	Cayman Islands	80.44
17	Bermuda	80.43
18	New Zealand	80.36
19	Italy	80.2
20	Gibraltar	80.19
21	Monaco	80.09
22	Liechtenstein	80.06
23	Spain	80.05
24	Norway	79.95
25	Jersey	79.75
26	Greece	79.66
27	Austria	79.5
28	Malta	79.44
29	Faroe Islands	79.44
30	Netherlands	79.4
31	Luxembourg	79.33
32	Germany	79.26
33	Belgium	79.22
34	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	79.07
35	Virgin Islands	79.05
36	United Kingdom	79.01
37	Finland	78.97
38	Jordan	78.87
39	Man, Isle of	78.82
40	Korea, South	78.72
41	Puerto Rico	78.53
42	Bosnia and Herzegovina	78.5
43	Saint Helena	78.44
44	Denmark	78.3
45	Ireland	78.24
46	Portugal	78.21
47	Wallis and Futuna	78.2
48	United States	78.11
49	Guam	78.01
50	Taiwan	77.96
51	Albania	77.96
52	Kuwait	77.71
53	Costa Rica	77.58
54	Cuba	77.45
55	Chile	77.34
56	Libya	77.26
57	British Virgin Islands	77.26
58	Panama	77.25
59	Slovenia	76.92
60	Czech Republic	76.81
61	Georgia	76.72
62	French Polynesia	76.71
63	Northern Mariana Islands	76.7
64	Netherlands Antilles	76.65
65	Argentina	76.56
66	Saint Lucia	76.45
67	Uruguay	76.35
68	Saudi Arabia	76.3
69	United Arab Emirates	76.11
70	Mexico	76.06
71	Tunisia	75.78
72	Paraguay	75.77
73	Brunei	75.74
74	Poland	75.63
75	Dominica	75.55
76	Turks and Caicos Islands	75.42
77	Slovakia	75.4
78	Qatar	75.35
79	Croatia	75.35
80	Ecuador	75.3
81	Aruba	75.28
82	Bahrain	75.16
83	Sri Lanka	75.14
84	New Caledonia	74.98
85	Lithuania	74.9
86	Antigua and Barbuda	74.76
87	Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of	74.68
88	West Bank	74.54
89	Cook Islands	74.22
90	Oman	74.16
91	Algeria	74.02
92	Mauritius	74
93	Maldives	73.97
94	Barbados	73.94
95	Suriname	73.73
96	American Samoa	73.72
97	Dominican Republic	73.7
98	Solomon Islands	73.69
99	Lebanon	73.66
100	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	73.65
101	Venezuela	73.61
102	Jamaica	73.53
103	China	73.47
104	Hungary	73.44
105	Gaza Strip	73.42
106	Malaysia	73.29
107	Saint Kitts and Nevis	73.2
108	Thailand	73.1
109	Bulgaria	73.09
110	Seychelles	73.02
111	Estonia	72.82
112	Colombia	72.81
113	Montserrat	72.76
114	Armenia	72.68
115	Romania	72.45
116	El Salvador	72.33
117	Latvia	72.15
118	Egypt	72.12
119	Brazil	71.99
120	Turkey	71.96
121	Uzbekistan	71.96
122	Samoa	71.86
123	Morocco	71.8
124	Cape Verde	71.61
125	Vietnam	71.58
126	Nicaragua	71.5
127	Palau	71.22
128	Marshall Islands	71.19
129	Syria	71.19
130	Iran	71.14
131	Philippines	71.09
132	Micronesia, Federated States of	70.94
133	Trinidad and Tobago	70.86
134	Moldova	70.8
135	Indonesia	70.76
136	Peru	70.74
137	Tonga	70.73
138	Fiji	70.73
139	Belarus	70.63
140	Guatemala	70.29
141	Greenland	70.07
142	Iraq	69.94
143	India	69.89
144	Kyrgyzstan	69.43
145	Honduras	69.4
146	Tuvalu	69.29
147	Sao Tome and Principe	68.32
148	Ukraine	68.25
149	Belize	68.2
150	Kazakhstan	67.87
151	Turkmenistan	67.87
152	Mongolia	67.65
153	East Timor	67.27
154	Bolivia	66.89
155	Guyana	66.68
156	Azerbaijan	66.66
157	Papua New Guinea	66.34
158	Bhutan	66.13
159	Russia	66.03
160	Grenada	65.95
161	Bahamas, The	65.78
162	Nepal	65.46
163	Tajikistan	65.33
164	Pakistan	64.49
165	Nauru	64.2
166	Vanuatu	63.98
167	Korea, North	63.81
168	Comoros	63.47
169	Burma	63.39
170	Yemen	63.27
171	Kiribati	63.22
172	Mayotte	62.91
173	Madagascar	62.89
174	Cambodia	62.1
175	Botswana	61.85
176	Eritrea	61.78
177	Equatorial Guinea	61.61
178	Haiti	60.78
179	Mauritania	60.37
180	Bangladesh	60.25
181	Ghana	59.85
182	Benin	59
183	Senegal	59
184	Togo	58.69
185	Kenya	57.86
186	Guinea	57.09
187	Laos	56.68
188	Cote d'Ivoire	55.45
189	Ethiopia	55.41
190	Gambia, The	55.35
191	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	54.36
192	Western Sahara	54.32
193	Congo, Republic of the	54.15
194	Cameroon	53.69
195	Gabon	53.11
196	Burkina Faso	52.95
197	Uganda	52.72
198	Niger	52.6
199	Burundi	52.09
200	Tanzania	52.01
201	Sudan	51.42
202	Namibia	51.24
203	Rwanda	50.52
204	Mali	50.35
205	Somalia	49.63
206	South Africa	48.98
207	Guinea-Bissau	47.9
208	Chad	47.7
209	Nigeria	46.94
210	Zimbabwe	45.77
211	Afghanistan	44.64
212	Central African Republic	44.47
213	Malawi	43.82
214	Djibouti	43.37
215	Liberia	41.84
216	Sierra Leone	41.24
217	Mozambique	41.18
218	Lesotho	40.38
219	Zambia	38.63
220	Angola	38.2
221	Swaziland	31.88

Definition: This entry contains the average number of years to be lived by a group of people born in the same year, if mortality at each age remains constant in the future. The entry includes total population as well as the male and female components. Life expectancy at birth is also a measure of overall quality of life in a country and summarizes the mortality at all ages. It can also be thought of as indicating the potential return on investment in human capital and is necessary for the calculation of various actuarial measures.

Source: CIA World Factbook - Unless otherwise noted, information in this page is accurate as of January 1, 2009