Our World in Data · OWID.LIFE.EXP
Life expectancy
Period life expectancy is the number of years the average person born in a certain year would live if they experienced the same chances of dying at each age as people did that year.
Life expectancy data
Unweighted average of the 54 countries reporting in 2023
+6.4% on 2013. Country values run from 54.5 to 76.5 years. An average of country values, not a regional total.
- Countries covered
- 54
- Years
- 1950–2023
- Observations
- 3,996
- Source
- Our World in Data
Countries
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Years
1950 – 2023 · 74 years
Annual values by country, 1950 to 2023
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- Algeria
- Angola
- Benin
3 countries · 74 years · 3,996 values in the snapshot
Data tablevalues in years
| Country | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 | 1953 | 1954 | 1955 | 1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1959 | 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979 | 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
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| Algeria DZ | 42.7 | 43.3 | 43.5 | 43.6 | 40.6 | 40.9 | 40.9 | 40.9 | 40.9 | 40.9 | 40.8 | 40.8 | 39.5 | 43.1 | 43 | 42.9 | 42.8 | 42.7 | 42.8 | 43 | 43.3 | 43.8 | 44.4 | 45.1 | 46 | 46.9 | 48 | 49.3 | 50.6 | 52.4 | 54.5 | 57.4 | 59.6 | 61.3 | 62.7 | 64.2 | 65.3 | 66.1 | 66.9 | 67.5 | 67.7 | 67.7 | 67.7 | 67.8 | 67.3 | 67.7 | 68.2 | 68.9 | 69.3 | 70.1 | 70.6 | 71 | 71.6 | 71.9 | 72.5 | 72.8 | 73.1 | 73.4 | 73.6 | 73.9 | 74.1 | 74.4 | 74.6 | 74.8 | 75 | 75.2 | 75.3 | 75.4 | 75.6 | 75.7 | 73.3 | 75.2 | 76.1 | 76.3 |
| Angola AO | 35.9 | 36.1 | 36.2 | 36.4 | 36.6 | 36.9 | 37.1 | 37.3 | 37.5 | 37.7 | 37.9 | 36.9 | 37.2 | 37.4 | 37.7 | 38 | 38.3 | 38.6 | 39 | 39.3 | 39.7 | 40.1 | 40.5 | 40.9 | 41.3 | 40.8 | 40.8 | 41.2 | 41.6 | 41.9 | 42.2 | 42.6 | 42.9 | 42 | 42.3 | 42.5 | 42.7 | 40.8 | 41.5 | 41.7 | 41.9 | 43.8 | 42.3 | 42.2 | 43.6 | 46.1 | 46.4 | 46.7 | 45.5 | 45.8 | 46.5 | 47 | 47.9 | 50.2 | 51.1 | 52.1 | 53 | 54.2 | 55.3 | 56.2 | 57.2 | 58.1 | 58.9 | 59.7 | 60.4 | 61 | 61.6 | 62.1 | 62.6 | 63.1 | 63.1 | 63 | 64.3 | 64.6 |
| Benin BJ | 35.4 | 35.7 | 36 | 36.3 | 36.7 | 37 | 37.3 | 37.6 | 38 | 38.4 | 38.8 | 39.2 | 39.6 | 40.1 | 40.5 | 41 | 41.3 | 41.8 | 42.2 | 42.6 | 43 | 43.4 | 43.9 | 44.4 | 44.9 | 45.4 | 46 | 46.5 | 46.9 | 47.4 | 47.8 | 48.1 | 48.5 | 48.8 | 49.4 | 50 | 50.6 | 51.3 | 52 | 52.5 | 53 | 53.4 | 54.1 | 54.6 | 55 | 55.4 | 55.7 | 56 | 56.2 | 56.3 | 56.6 | 56.7 | 56.9 | 57.1 | 57.4 | 57.7 | 58 | 58.3 | 58.1 | 58.3 | 58.4 | 58.5 | 58.6 | 58.9 | 59 | 59.1 | 59.3 | 59.5 | 59.7 | 59.9 | 60.2 | 59.6 | 60.5 | 60.8 |
Source and notes
- Indicator code
- OWID.LIFE.EXP
- Unit
- years
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Collection
- Our World in Data
Values as published by Our World in Data: Riley (2005); Zijdeman et al. (2015); HMD (2025); UN WPP (2024). Coverage is the countries and years held in this snapshot, not the full extent of the series at source. Check at ourworldindata.org.
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