Life expectancy: females versus males, 2023

The period life expectancy at birth, in a given year.

Country/area	Life Expectancy, females, age 0 UN WPP years • 2023	Life Expectancy, males, age 0 UN WPP years • 2023	Population, total UN WPP people • 2023	World regions according to OWID 2023
Afghanistan	67.54 years	64.47 years	41,454,762	Asia
Aland Islands				Europe
Albania	81.45 years	77.73 years	2,811,660	Europe
Algeria	77.70 years	74.89 years	46,164,221	Africa
American Samoa	75.84 years	70.20 years	47,543	Oceania
Andorra	86.11 years	82.10 years	80,868	Europe
Angola	67.14 years	62.10 years	36,749,907	Africa
Anguilla	82.66 years	76.03 years	14,435	North America
Antigua and Barbuda	80.29 years	74.55 years	93,333	North America
Argentina	79.88 years	74.81 years	45,538,402	South America
Armenia	79.45 years	71.39 years	2,943,395	Asia
Aruba	78.78 years	73.70 years	107,946	North America
Australia	85.74 years	82.10 years	26,451,125	Oceania
Austria	84.32 years	79.54 years	9,130,434	Europe
Austria-Hungary				Europe
Azerbaijan	77.13 years	71.56 years	10,318,210	Asia
Bahamas	78.19 years	70.91 years	399,452	North America
Bahrain	81.99 years	80.67 years	1,569,674	Asia
Bangladesh	76.37 years	73.03 years	171,466,986	Asia
Barbados	78.61 years	73.63 years	282,348	North America
Belarus	79.06 years	69.53 years	9,115,680	Europe
Belgium	84.33 years	79.86 years	11,712,894	Europe
Belize	76.50 years	70.93 years	411,115	North America
Benin	62.21 years	59.35 years	14,111,035	Africa
Bermuda	85.74 years	78.86 years	64,721	North America
Bhutan	74.97 years	71.31 years	786,387	Asia
Bolivia	71.14 years	66.13 years	12,244,161	South America
Bonaire Sint Eustatius and Saba	80.16 years	75.23 years	29,919	North America
Bosnia and Herzegovina	80.90 years	74.42 years	3,185,071	Europe
Botswana	71.70 years	66.67 years	2,480,242	Africa
Brazil	78.98 years	72.76 years	211,140,731	South America
British Indian Ocean Territory				Asia
British Virgin Islands	80.05 years	74.53 years	39,008	North America
Brunei	77.56 years	73.33 years	458,959	Asia
Bulgaria	79.21 years	72.16 years	6,795,804	Europe
Burkina Faso	63.22 years	58.92 years	23,025,778	Africa
Burundi	65.70 years	61.60 years	13,689,455	Africa
Cambodia	73.19 years	68.01 years	17,423,881	Asia
Cameroon	65.94 years	61.52 years	28,372,688	Africa
Canada	84.83 years	80.43 years	39,299,099	North America
Cape Verde	79.21 years	72.86 years	522,335	Africa
Cayman Islands	82.87 years	77.98 years	73,055	North America
Central African Republic	59.29 years	55.26 years	5,152,417	Africa
Chad	57.01 years	53.20 years	19,319,073	Africa
Chile	83.08 years	79.24 years	19,658,834	South America
China	80.93 years	75.20 years	1,422,584,937	Asia
Christmas Island				Asia
Cocos Islands				Asia
Colombia	80.45 years	74.95 years	52,321,152	South America
Comoros	68.93 years	64.79 years	850,390	Africa
Congo	67.46 years	64.12 years	6,182,889	Africa
Cook Islands	79.05 years	71.87 years	14,243	Oceania
Costa Rica	83.42 years	78.13 years	5,105,527	North America
Cote d'Ivoire	64.13 years	60.02 years	31,165,651	Africa
Croatia	81.69 years	75.41 years	3,896,024	Europe
Cuba	80.52 years	75.67 years	11,019,931	North America
Curacao	80.82 years	72.46 years	185,437	North America
Cyprus	83.67 years	79.64 years	1,344,979	Europe
Czechia	82.64 years	77.00 years	10,809,722	Europe
Czechoslovakia				Europe
Democratic Republic of Congo	64.04 years	59.79 years	105,789,733	Africa
Democratic Republic of Vietnam				Asia
Denmark	83.86 years	80.02 years	5,948,134	Europe
Djibouti	68.51 years	63.52 years	1,152,951	Africa
Dominica	74.55 years	68.21 years	66,531	North America
Dominican Republic	76.97 years	70.53 years	11,331,268	North America
Duchy of Modena and Reggio				Europe
Duchy of Parma and Piacenza				Europe
East Germany				Europe
East Timor	69.44 years	66.07 years	1,384,292	Asia
Ecuador	80.14 years	74.66 years	17,980,079	South America
Egypt	73.81 years	69.49 years	114,535,772	Africa
El Salvador	76.26 years	67.52 years	6,309,628	North America
Equatorial Guinea	65.66 years	62.04 years	1,847,556	Africa
Eritrea	70.66 years	66.51 years	3,470,392	Africa
Estonia	83.04 years	74.90 years	1,367,194	Europe
Eswatini	66.95 years	61.19 years	1,230,508	Africa
Ethiopia	70.73 years	64.08 years	128,691,696	Africa
Ethiopia (former)				Africa
Falkland Islands	81.24 years	77.15 years	3,498	South America
Faroe Islands	82.50 years	78.17 years	54,738	Europe
Federal Republic of Central America				North America
Fiji	69.36 years	65.34 years	924,150	Oceania
Finland	84.67 years	79.17 years	5,601,185	Europe
France	86.09 years	80.43 years	66,438,828	Europe
French Guiana	79.99 years	74.13 years	303,409	South America
French Polynesia	86.50 years	81.78 years	281,124	Oceania
Gabon	71.05 years	65.91 years	2,484,790	Africa
Gambia	67.53 years	64.17 years	2,697,848	Africa
Georgia	79.11 years	69.57 years	3,807,494	Asia
Germany	83.76 years	79.02 years	84,548,234	Europe
Ghana	67.94 years	63.13 years	33,787,915	Africa
Gibraltar	86.14 years	80.92 years	38,493	Europe
Grand Duchy of Baden				Europe
Grand Duchy of Tuscany				Europe
Great Colombia				South America
Greece	84.33 years	79.29 years	10,242,909	Europe
Greenland	72.44 years	68.09 years	55,951	North America
Grenada	78.36 years	72.36 years	117,093	North America
Guadeloupe	85.53 years	78.13 years	376,519	North America
Guam	81.42 years	73.44 years	166,523	Oceania
Guatemala	74.88 years	70.31 years	18,124,842	North America
Guernsey	85.58 years	81.01 years	64,042	Europe
Guinea	61.90 years	59.52 years	14,405,469	Africa
Guinea-Bissau	66.36 years	61.66 years	2,153,344	Africa
Guyana	73.94 years	66.51 years	826,360	South America
Haiti	68.30 years	61.73 years	11,637,402	North America
Honduras	75.50 years	70.35 years	10,644,855	North America
Hong Kong	88.13 years	82.84 years	7,442,738	Asia
Hungary	80.19 years	73.71 years	9,686,463	Europe
Iceland	84.51 years	80.98 years	387,559	Europe
India	73.60 years	70.52 years	1,438,069,597	Asia
Indonesia	73.27 years	69.04 years	281,190,068	Asia
Iran	79.63 years	75.79 years	90,608,708	Asia
Iraq	74.06 years	70.43 years	45,074,055	Asia
Ireland	84.48 years	80.37 years	5,196,629	Europe
Isle of Man	83.13 years	78.93 years	84,180	Europe
Israel	84.59 years	80.18 years	9,256,311	Asia
Italy	85.75 years	81.57 years	59,499,452	Europe
Jamaica	73.99 years	68.97 years	2,839,785	North America
Japan	87.74 years	81.69 years	124,370,947	Asia
Jersey	81.76 years	77.72 years	103,679	Europe
Jordan	80.19 years	75.71 years	11,439,219	Asia
Kazakhstan	78.39 years	70.11 years	20,330,106	Asia
Kenya	65.92 years	61.46 years	55,339,007	Africa
Kingdom of Bavaria				Europe
Kingdom of Sardinia				Europe
Kingdom of Saxony				Europe
Kingdom of Wurttemberg				Europe
Kingdom of the Two Sicilies				Europe
Kiribati	68.17 years	64.58 years	132,539	Oceania
Korea (former)				Asia
Kosovo	80.12 years	75.80 years	1,700,039	Europe
Kuwait	81.85 years	79.25 years	4,838,780	Asia
Kyrgyzstan	75.25 years	68.18 years	7,073,523	Asia
Laos	71.25 years	66.78 years	7,665,002	Asia
Latvia	80.47 years	71.56 years	1,882,400	Europe
Lebanon	79.73 years	75.74 years	5,773,492	Asia
Lesotho	60.01 years	54.62 years	2,311,476	Africa
Liberia	63.44 years	60.88 years	5,493,034	Africa
Libya	70.42 years	68.27 years	7,305,660	Africa
Liechtenstein	85.32 years	81.84 years	39,621	Europe
Lithuania	80.67 years	71.22 years	2,854,105	Europe
Luxembourg	83.84 years	80.57 years	665,101	Europe
Macao	85.25 years	80.83 years	713,916	Asia
Madagascar	65.38 years	61.94 years	31,195,936	Africa
Malawi	70.56 years	64.07 years	21,104,480	Africa
Malaysia	79.37 years	74.27 years	35,126,295	Asia
Maldives	82.82 years	79.69 years	526,009	Asia
Mali	61.90 years	59.04 years	23,769,129	Africa
Malta	85.26 years	81.27 years	532,964	Europe
Marshall Islands	69.33 years	64.93 years	38,849	Oceania
Martinique	85.62 years	79.25 years	346,008	North America
Mauritania	70.48 years	66.50 years	5,022,440	Africa
Mauritius	78.18 years	71.94 years	1,273,590	Africa
Mayotte	78.33 years	74.09 years	316,028	Africa
Mexico	77.81 years	72.24 years	129,739,764	North America
Micronesia (country)	71.12 years	63.49 years	112,646	Oceania
Moldova	75.53 years	66.57 years	3,067,071	Europe
Monaco	88.50 years	84.45 years	38,978	Europe
Mongolia	76.43 years	67.24 years	3,431,939	Asia
Montenegro	80.31 years	73.73 years	633,557	Europe
Montserrat	78.81 years	74.11 years	4,440	North America
Morocco	77.60 years	73.17 years	37,712,517	Africa
Mozambique	66.54 years	60.30 years	33,635,165	Africa
Myanmar	70.16 years	63.79 years	54,133,801	Asia
Namibia	71.34 years	63.33 years	2,963,101	Africa
Nauru	64.00 years	60.28 years	11,900	Oceania
Nepal	71.84 years	68.83 years	29,694,614	Asia
Netherlands	83.74 years	80.54 years	18,092,525	Europe
Netherlands Antilles				North America
New Caledonia	81.29 years	76.28 years	289,880	Oceania
New Zealand	83.77 years	80.41 years	5,172,839	Oceania
Nicaragua	77.42 years	72.31 years	6,823,618	North America
Niger	62.13 years	60.26 years	26,159,862	Africa
Nigeria	54.74 years	54.18 years	227,882,949	Africa
Niue	72.71 years	67.43 years	1,841	Oceania
Norfolk Island				Oceania
North Korea	75.74 years	71.46 years	26,418,196	Asia
North Macedonia	79.57 years	75.11 years	1,831,800	Europe
Northern Mariana Islands	80.74 years	77.13 years	45,165	Oceania
Norway	84.85 years	81.75 years	5,519,166	Europe
Oman	81.88 years	78.49 years	5,049,268	Asia
Orange Free State				Africa
Pakistan	70.16 years	65.33 years	247,504,504	Asia
Pakistan (former)				Asia
Palau	71.80 years	67.15 years	17,750	Oceania
Palestine	71.50 years	59.69 years	5,409,201	Asia
Panama	82.56 years	76.65 years	4,458,759	North America
Papua New Guinea	69.08 years	63.74 years	10,389,638	Oceania
Paraguay	76.95 years	70.89 years	6,844,152	South America
Peru	80.12 years	75.41 years	33,845,617	South America
Philippines	72.82 years	66.89 years	114,891,200	Asia
Pitcairn				Oceania
Poland	82.35 years	74.88 years	38,762,847	Europe
Portugal	85.12 years	79.44 years	10,430,735	Europe
Puerto Rico	85.24 years	78.03 years	3,242,023	North America
Qatar	83.37 years	81.61 years	2,979,087	Asia
Republic of Vietnam				Asia
Reunion	86.33 years	80.53 years	874,883	Africa
Romania	79.56 years	72.40 years	19,118,481	Europe
Russia	79.04 years	67.26 years	145,440,504	Europe
Rwanda	69.89 years	65.49 years	13,954,474	Africa
Saint Barthelemy	86.81 years	81.46 years	11,112	North America
Saint Helena	80.62 years	73.87 years	5,316	Africa
Saint Kitts and Nevis	76.02 years	68.57 years	46,783	North America
Saint Lucia	76.30 years	69.31 years	179,293	North America
Saint Martin (French part)	83.84 years	76.77 years	27,545	North America
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	81.52 years	72.75 years	5,707	North America
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	74.31 years	68.66 years	101,331	North America
Samoa	73.66 years	69.86 years	216,674	Oceania
San Marino	87.10 years	84.21 years	33,761	Europe
Sao Tome and Principe	73.73 years	66.24 years	230,881	Africa
Saudi Arabia	81.16 years	77.10 years	33,264,288	Asia
Senegal	70.75 years	66.79 years	18,077,573	Africa
Serbia	80.04 years	73.50 years	6,773,203	Europe
Serbia and Montenegro				Europe
Seychelles	76.52 years	69.94 years	127,961	Africa
Sierra Leone	63.50 years	60.06 years	8,460,523	Africa
Singapore	86.24 years	81.24 years	5,789,091	Asia
Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	79.53 years	73.70 years	42,775	North America
Slovakia	81.58 years	75.02 years	5,518,057	Europe
Slovenia	84.34 years	78.90 years	2,118,395	Europe
Solomon Islands	71.98 years	69.22 years	800,013	Oceania
Somalia	61.39 years	56.35 years	18,358,621	Africa
South Africa	69.60 years	62.61 years	63,212,386	Africa
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands				South America
South Korea	87.16 years	81.19 years	51,748,744	Asia
South Sudan	60.63 years	54.64 years	11,483,373	Africa
Spain	86.31 years	80.96 years	47,911,583	Europe
Sri Lanka	80.59 years	74.24 years	22,971,616	Asia
Sudan	69.63 years	63.27 years	50,042,799	Africa
Suriname	76.83 years	70.46 years	628,892	South America
Sweden	85.10 years	81.44 years	10,551,493	Europe
Switzerland	85.83 years	82.01 years	8,870,564	Europe
Syria	74.41 years	69.83 years	23,594,622	Asia
Taiwan	83.61 years	77.63 years	23,317,145	Asia
Tajikistan	73.98 years	69.57 years	10,389,808	Asia
Tanzania	69.78 years	64.20 years	66,617,607	Africa
Thailand	80.86 years	72.16 years	71,702,438	Asia
Togo	62.92 years	62.54 years	9,304,344	Africa
Tokelau	78.92 years	74.95 years	2,424	Oceania
Tonga	76.41 years	69.37 years	104,614	Oceania
Trinidad and Tobago	76.68 years	70.38 years	1,502,936	North America
Tunisia	79.15 years	73.92 years	12,200,434	Africa
Turkey	79.86 years	74.53 years	87,270,503	Asia
Turkmenistan	72.84 years	66.87 years	7,364,437	Asia
Turks and Caicos Islands	80.30 years	75.83 years	46,219	North America
Tuvalu	70.70 years	63.77 years	9,837	Oceania
USSR				Europe
Uganda	71.12 years	65.27 years	48,656,604	Africa
Ukraine	80.20 years	66.90 years	37,732,832	Europe
United Arab Emirates	84.20 years	81.98 years	10,642,089	Asia
United Kingdom	83.21 years	79.36 years	68,682,965	Europe
United States	81.85 years	76.86 years	343,477,332	North America
United States Virgin Islands	81.35 years	70.51 years	85,712	North America
Uruguay	81.92 years	74.19 years	3,388,083	South America
Uzbekistan	75.40 years	69.45 years	35,652,309	Asia
Vanuatu	73.93 years	69.44 years	320,422	Oceania
Vatican	85.12 years	80.78 years	501	Europe
Venezuela	76.50 years	68.72 years	28,300,860	South America
Vietnam	79.26 years	69.88 years	100,352,189	Asia
Wallis and Futuna	79.62 years	77.66 years	11,394	Oceania
West Germany				Europe
Western Sahara	73.55 years	69.69 years	579,735	Africa
Yemen	71.39 years	67.23 years	39,390,800	Asia
Yemen Arab Republic				Asia
Yemen People's Republic				Asia
Yugoslavia				Europe
Zambia	68.67 years	63.94 years	20,723,968	Africa
Zimbabwe	65.01 years	60.23 years	16,340,829	Africa
Other
Africa (UN)	65.91 years	61.81 years	1,480,770,527
Americas (UN)			1,041,794,259
Asia (UN)	77.20 years	72.08 years	4,778,004,495
Europe (UN)	82.56 years	75.53 years	745,602,869
High-income countries	84.05 years	78.84 years	1,261,155,613
Land-locked developing countries (LLDC)			579,184,957
Latin America and the Caribbean (UN)	78.64 years	72.76 years	658,891,516
Least developed countries	68.66 years	64.07 years	1,161,055,556
Less developed regions	74.26 years	69.31 years	6,807,234,405
Less developed regions, excluding China	72.51 years	68.01 years	5,353,175,687
Less developed regions, excluding least developed countries	75.44 years	70.55 years	5,646,178,846
Low-income countries	67.32 years	62.58 years	736,466,397
Lower-middle-income countries	71.61 years	67.65 years	3,253,459,066
More developed regions	83.05 years	76.72 years	1,284,500,519
Northern America (UN)	82.16 years	77.22 years	382,902,740
Oceania (UN)	81.51 years	76.88 years	45,562,792
Small island developing states (SIDS)			72,894,714
Upper-middle-income countries	79.01 years	72.87 years	2,811,308,945
World	75.89 years	70.55 years	8,091,734,935

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