❤️ Life Expectancy at Birth
Average number of years a newborn is expected to live.
1
🇲🇨Monaco
86.5 yrs
2
🇸🇲San Marino
85.8 yrs
3
🇭🇰Hong Kong
85.4 yrs
4
🇰🇼Kuwait
84.6 yrs
5
🇨🇭Switzerland
84.4 yrs
6
🇱🇮Liechtenstein
84.2 yrs
7
🇵🇫French Polynesia
84.2 yrs
8
🇦🇩Andorra
84.2 yrs
9
🇸🇪Sweden
84.1 yrs
10
🇯🇵Japan
84.0 yrs
11
🇮🇹Italy
84.0 yrs
12
🇪🇸Spain
83.9 yrs
13
🇬🇮Gibraltar
83.6 yrs
14
🇰🇷South Korea
83.6 yrs
15
🇸🇬Singapore
83.3 yrs
16
🇲🇴Macau
83.3 yrs
17
🇮🇱Israel
83.2 yrs
18
🇱🇺Luxembourg
83.2 yrs
19
🇳🇴Norway
83.2 yrs
20
🇫🇴Faroe Islands
83.1 yrs
21
🇦🇪United Arab Emirates
83.1 yrs
22
🇦🇺Australia
83.1 yrs
23
🇮🇪Ireland
83.0 yrs
24
🇫🇷France
83.0 yrs
25
🇲🇹Malta
83.0 yrs
26
🇮🇸Iceland
82.8 yrs
27
🇶🇦Qatar
82.5 yrs
28
🇧🇲Bermuda
82.5 yrs
29
🇵🇹Portugal
82.4 yrs
30
🇫🇮Finland
82.3 yrs
31
🇧🇪Belgium
82.3 yrs
32
🇸🇮Slovenia
82.3 yrs
33
🇩🇰Denmark
82.3 yrs
34
🇨🇦Canada
82.1 yrs
35
🇳🇿New Zealand
82.0 yrs
36
🇦🇹Austria
82.0 yrs
37
🇳🇱Netherlands
82.0 yrs
38
🇵🇷Puerto Rico
81.9 yrs
39
🇬🇷Greece
81.8 yrs
40
🇨🇾Cyprus
81.8 yrs
41
🇧🇭Bahrain
81.4 yrs
42
🇬🇧United Kingdom
81.4 yrs
43
🇨🇱Chile
81.4 yrs
44
🇲🇻Maldives
81.3 yrs
45
🇮🇲Isle of Man
81.1 yrs
46
🇨🇷Costa Rica
81.0 yrs
47
🇩🇪Germany
80.8 yrs
48
🇻🇮United States Virgin Islands
80.8 yrs
49
🇰🇾Cayman Islands
80.5 yrs
50
🇲🇫Saint Martin
80.4 yrs
Highlights
As of 2024, Monaco ranks first with 86.5 yrs, followed by San Marino (85.8 yrs) and Hong Kong (85.4 yrs).
The top two are virtually level: Monaco and San Marino differ by less than 1%.
Across 215 countries and territories, values run from 86.5 yrs (Monaco) to 54.6 yrs (Nigeria), with a median of 74.7 yrs.
By region, the top 10 is made up of 6 from Europe, 3 from Asia and 1 from Oceania.
Source: World Bank Open Data — Life expectancy at birth, total (years), 2024. Unit: years.
Source: World Bank Open Data — Life expectancy at birth, total (years) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 13, 2026