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

Showing every country with available data for 2024 • World Bank: SP.DYN.LE00.MA.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, male (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 71.57, 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

82.70

Europe & Central Asia

Monaco

84.56

Latin America & Caribbean

Chile

79.45

Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan

Kuwait

83.80

North America

Canada

80.03

South Asia

Maldives

79.95

Sub-Saharan Africa

Cabo Verde

73.05

Rank Country Life expectancy at birth, male (years)
1 Monaco 84.56
2 San Marino 84.32
3 Kuwait 83.80
4 Switzerland 82.70
5 Hong Kong SAR, China 82.70
6 Sweden 82.60
7 Andorra 82.26
8 Liechtenstein 82.20
9 United Arab Emirates 82.17
10 Italy 82.00
11 French Polynesia 81.90
12 Qatar 81.78
13 Norway 81.60
14 Ireland 81.40
15 Spain 81.40
16 Faroe Islands 81.34
17 Singapore 81.20
18 Iceland 81.20
19 Malta 81.20
20 Australia 81.10
21 Israel 81.10
22 Japan 81.09
23 Gibraltar 81.03
24 Luxembourg 81.00
25 Bahrain 80.86
26 Korea, Rep. 80.80
27 Macao SAR, China 80.60
28 Netherlands 80.60
29 New Zealand 80.40
30 Denmark 80.40
31 Belgium 80.30
32 France 80.20
33 Canada 80.03
34 Maldives 79.95
35 Cyprus 79.84
36 Finland 79.80
37 Austria 79.80
38 Portugal 79.70
39 Slovenia 79.70
40 United Kingdom 79.54
41 Chile 79.45
42 Greece 79.40
43 Channel Islands 79.10
44 Bermuda 79.06
45 Isle of Man 79.04
46 Oman 78.72
47 Germany 78.50
48 Costa Rica 78.37
49 Puerto Rico (US) 78.28
50 Cayman Islands 78.20
51 Albania 77.92
52 Virgin Islands (U.S.) 77.60
53 Saudi Arabia 77.33
54 Northern Mariana Islands 77.28
55 Czechia 77.10
56 St. Martin (French part) 76.99
57 Panama 76.88
58 United States 76.50
59 New Caledonia 76.46
60 Croatia 76.10
61 Kosovo 76.01
62 Turks and Caicos Islands 76.01
63 Iran, Islamic Rep. 76.00
64 Jordan 75.89
65 Lebanon 75.88
66 Cuba 75.86
67 Peru 75.63
68 Montenegro 75.50
69 China 75.25
70 Slovak Republic 75.20
71 Colombia 75.16
72 Armenia 75.10
73 Estonia 75.10
74 Algeria 75.10
75 Argentina 74.98
76 Ecuador 74.88
77 Poland 74.80
78 Antigua and Barbuda 74.74
79 British Virgin Islands 74.70
80 Bosnia and Herzegovina 74.65
81 Turkiye 74.62
82 North Macedonia 74.48
83 Malaysia 74.45
84 Sri Lanka 74.45
85 Uruguay 74.38
86 Tunisia 74.13
87 Sint Maarten (Dutch part) 73.85
88 Aruba 73.85
89 Barbados 73.75
90 Hungary 73.70
91 Serbia 73.70
92 Guam 73.66
93 Brunei Darussalam 73.49
94 Morocco 73.35
95 Bangladesh 73.30
96 Cabo Verde 73.05
97 Lithuania 73.00
98 Brazil 72.95
99 Romania 72.80
100 Curacao 72.66
101 Grenada 72.52
102 Nicaragua 72.46
103 Mexico 72.44
104 Thailand 72.34
105 Bulgaria 72.20
106 Seychelles 72.10
107 Azerbaijan 71.71
108 Latvia 71.60
109 Bhutan 71.57
110 Korea, Dem. People's Rep. 71.55
111 Belize 71.08
112 Bahamas, The 71.06
113 Paraguay 71.01
114 India 70.73
115 Dominican Republic 70.66
116 Suriname 70.60
117 Trinidad and Tobago 70.51
118 Iraq 70.50
119 Honduras 70.49
120 Guatemala 70.44
121 Mauritius 70.35
122 American Samoa 70.32
123 Kazakhstan 70.27
124 Syrian Arab Republic 70.21
125 Viet Nam 70.05
126 Samoa 69.96
127 Ukraine 69.79
128 Georgia 69.75
129 Belarus 69.74
130 Tajikistan 69.68
131 Egypt, Arab Rep. 69.65
132 Libya 69.63
133 Vanuatu 69.59
134 Uzbekistan 69.56
135 Tonga 69.50
136 St. Lucia 69.45
137 Solomon Islands 69.36
138 Indonesia 69.16
139 Nepal 69.09
140 Jamaica 69.08
141 Venezuela, RB 68.89
142 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 68.78
143 St. Kitts and Nevis 68.69
144 Greenland 68.41
145 Kyrgyz Republic 68.40
146 Dominica 68.35
147 Russian Federation 68.26
148 Cambodia 68.15
149 Mongolia 67.92
150 El Salvador 67.76
151 Yemen, Rep. 67.37
152 Palau 67.25
153 Lao PDR 67.02
154 Senegal 67.01
155 Turkmenistan 67.00
156 Philippines 66.99
157 Botswana 66.78
158 Eritrea 66.76
159 Mauritania 66.70
160 Moldova 66.70
161 Guyana 66.62
162 Sao Tome and Principe 66.41
163 Bolivia 66.27
164 Timor-Leste 66.27
165 Gabon 66.06
166 Rwanda 65.71
167 Uganda 65.49
168 Fiji 65.47
169 Pakistan 65.46
170 West Bank and Gaza 65.22
171 Marshall Islands 65.03
172 Comoros 65.02
173 Afghanistan 64.70
174 Kiribati 64.69
175 Tanzania 64.40
176 Ethiopia 64.36
177 Gambia, The 64.35
178 Congo, Rep. 64.33
179 Malawi 64.27
180 Zambia 64.10
181 Myanmar 63.99
182 Tuvalu 63.91
183 Papua New Guinea 63.84
184 Djibouti 63.73
185 Micronesia, Fed. Sts. 63.63
186 Namibia 63.45
187 Sudan 63.45
188 Ghana 63.31
189 South Africa 62.78
190 Togo 62.70
191 Angola 62.28
192 Equatorial Guinea 62.22
193 Madagascar 62.12
194 Haiti 61.90
195 Guinea-Bissau 61.82
196 Cameroon 61.78
197 Burundi 61.75
198 Kenya 61.64
199 Eswatini 61.32
200 Liberia 61.02
201 Zimbabwe 60.49
202 Niger 60.49
203 Mozambique 60.49
204 Nauru 60.41
205 Sierra Leone 60.23
206 Cote d'Ivoire 60.17
207 Congo, Dem. Rep. 59.96
208 Guinea 59.66
209 Benin 59.52
210 Mali 59.25
211 Burkina Faso 59.11
212 Somalia, Fed. Rep. 56.49
213 Central African Republic 55.51
214 Lesotho 55.03
215 South Sudan 54.76
216 Nigeria 54.33
217 Chad 53.36

Source: World Bank Open Data (SP.DYN.LE00.MA.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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