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Countries Ranked by Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

Showing every country with available data for 2024 • World Bank: SP.DYN.LE00.FE.IN

The indicator page shows only the leaders and the laggards — useful for headlines, but it leaves out the middle of the distribution, which is where most countries actually sit. This page lists every country with reported life expectancy at birth, female (years) data for 2024, ranked from highest to lowest, so you can find any country's exact position rather than guessing whether it falls inside the top or bottom ten.

Of the 217 countries reporting, the median value is 78.00, meaning half the world sits above this line and half below. Use the search box below to jump straight to a country, or scroll the full table. Each country name links through to its detailed country × indicator page with the 20-year trend.

Top Country in Each Region

East Asia & Pacific

Hong Kong SAR, China

88.22

Europe & Central Asia

Monaco

88.63

Latin America & Caribbean

Puerto Rico (US)

85.38

Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan

Kuwait

85.40

North America

Bermuda

85.87

South Asia

Maldives

83.00

Sub-Saharan Africa

Seychelles

80.70

Rank Country Life expectancy at birth, female (years)
1 Monaco 88.63
2 Hong Kong SAR, China 88.22
3 San Marino 87.22
4 Japan 87.13
5 French Polynesia 86.62
6 Korea, Rep. 86.60
7 Spain 86.50
8 Liechtenstein 86.30
9 Andorra 86.24
10 Switzerland 86.20
11 Macao SAR, China 86.20
12 Gibraltar 86.19
13 Italy 86.00
14 France 85.90
15 Bermuda 85.87
16 Sweden 85.60
17 Singapore 85.60
18 Luxembourg 85.50
19 Kuwait 85.40
20 Israel 85.40
21 Puerto Rico (US) 85.38
22 Portugal 85.20
23 Australia 85.10
24 Slovenia 85.00
25 Finland 85.00
26 Faroe Islands 84.91
27 Malta 84.80
28 Norway 84.80
29 Ireland 84.70
30 Iceland 84.50
31 Belgium 84.40
32 Greece 84.40
33 United Arab Emirates 84.32
34 Austria 84.30
35 Canada 84.29
36 Denmark 84.20
37 Virgin Islands (U.S.) 84.10
38 St. Martin (French part) 83.96
39 Cyprus 83.80
40 New Zealand 83.70
41 Estonia 83.70
42 Costa Rica 83.58
43 Qatar 83.48
44 Netherlands 83.40
45 United Kingdom 83.33
46 Channel Islands 83.30
47 Chile 83.23
48 Isle of Man 83.20
49 Germany 83.20
50 Cayman Islands 83.00
51 Maldives 83.00
52 Czechia 83.00
53 Panama 82.71
54 Poland 82.20
55 Bahrain 82.13
56 Oman 82.05
57 Uruguay 82.04
58 Croatia 81.90
59 Armenia 81.70
60 Slovak Republic 81.70
61 Lithuania 81.60
62 Albania 81.59
63 Guam 81.59
64 Latvia 81.50
65 New Caledonia 81.41
66 United States 81.40
67 Saudi Arabia 81.33
68 Bosnia and Herzegovina 81.07
69 Thailand 80.98
70 China 80.97
71 Curacao 80.96
72 Northern Mariana Islands 80.87
73 Sri Lanka 80.75
74 Seychelles 80.70
75 Cuba 80.68
76 Colombia 80.61
77 Turks and Caicos Islands 80.45
78 Antigua and Barbuda 80.45
79 Montenegro 80.40
80 Turkiye 80.34
81 Jordan 80.34
82 Ecuador 80.31
83 Peru 80.30
84 Romania 80.30
85 Kosovo 80.28
86 British Virgin Islands 80.19
87 Argentina 80.02
88 Hungary 79.90
89 Lebanon 79.86
90 Iran, Islamic Rep. 79.81
91 Sint Maarten (Dutch part) 79.66
92 Malaysia 79.52
93 Bulgaria 79.50
94 Ukraine 79.39
95 Viet Nam 79.38
96 Cabo Verde 79.37
97 Tunisia 79.33
98 Georgia 79.23
99 Belarus 79.22
100 Brazil 79.15
101 Aruba 78.92
102 Russian Federation 78.88
103 North Macedonia 78.86
104 Barbados 78.76
105 Kazakhstan 78.52
106 Grenada 78.50
107 Serbia 78.35
108 Bahamas, The 78.33
109 Mexico 78.00
110 Algeria 77.91
111 Morocco 77.78
112 Brunei Darussalam 77.73
113 Nicaragua 77.58
114 Mauritius 77.40
115 Azerbaijan 77.29
116 Dominican Republic 77.11
117 Mongolia 77.10
118 Paraguay 77.09
119 Suriname 76.98
120 Trinidad and Tobago 76.83
121 Bangladesh 76.67
122 Belize 76.66
123 Venezuela, RB 76.66
124 Kyrgyz Republic 76.60
125 Tonga 76.54
126 El Salvador 76.49
127 St. Lucia 76.45
128 St. Kitts and Nevis 76.16
129 American Samoa 75.99
130 Korea, Dem. People's Rep. 75.88
131 Moldova 75.67
132 Honduras 75.67
133 Uzbekistan 75.55
134 Bhutan 75.27
135 Guatemala 75.04
136 Syrian Arab Republic 74.92
137 Dominica 74.72
138 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 74.48
139 West Bank and Gaza 74.25
140 Iraq 74.18
141 Jamaica 74.15
142 Tajikistan 74.14
143 Vanuatu 74.11
144 Guyana 74.09
145 Egypt, Arab Rep. 74.01
146 Sao Tome and Principe 73.91
147 India 73.86
148 Samoa 73.82
149 Indonesia 73.43
150 Cambodia 73.36
151 Turkmenistan 73.01
152 Philippines 72.96
153 Libya 72.68
154 Greenland 72.23
155 Solomon Islands 72.18
156 Nepal 72.14
157 Palau 71.94
158 Botswana 71.85
159 Yemen, Rep. 71.55
160 Lao PDR 71.53
161 Namibia 71.48
162 Uganda 71.37
163 Bolivia 71.32
164 Micronesia, Fed. Sts. 71.28
165 Gabon 71.24
166 Ethiopia 71.02
167 Senegal 71.01
168 Eritrea 70.94
169 Tuvalu 70.86
170 Malawi 70.77
171 Mauritania 70.73
172 Myanmar 70.38
173 Pakistan 70.32
174 Rwanda 70.14
175 Tanzania 70.00
176 Sudan 69.83
177 South Africa 69.79
178 Timor-Leste 69.67
179 Fiji 69.54
180 Marshall Islands 69.48
181 Papua New Guinea 69.21
182 Comoros 69.20
183 Zambia 68.87
184 Djibouti 68.74
185 Haiti 68.49
186 Kiribati 68.32
187 Ghana 68.16
188 Afghanistan 67.81
189 Gambia, The 67.75
190 Congo, Rep. 67.72
191 Angola 67.34
192 Eswatini 67.11
193 Mozambique 66.74
194 Guinea-Bissau 66.55
195 Cameroon 66.23
196 Kenya 66.12
197 Equatorial Guinea 65.89
198 Burundi 65.88
199 Madagascar 65.60
200 Zimbabwe 65.31
201 Cote d'Ivoire 64.31
202 Congo, Dem. Rep. 64.23
203 Nauru 64.19
204 Sierra Leone 63.70
205 Liberia 63.63
206 Burkina Faso 63.43
207 Togo 63.15
208 Benin 62.42
209 Niger 62.41
210 Mali 62.15
211 Guinea 62.09
212 Somalia, Fed. Rep. 61.55
213 South Sudan 60.75
214 Lesotho 60.44
215 Central African Republic 59.56
216 Chad 57.19
217 Nigeria 54.94

Source: World Bank Open Data (SP.DYN.LE00.FE.IN), CC BY 4.0. Rankings include only countries with reported values for 2024; countries with suppressed or unavailable data are omitted.

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