World Bank Open Data · CC BY 4.0 Some World Bank indicators are published with a lag. The site always shows the latest actually available year for each country and indicator.
RU EN

Suriname
Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

Life expectancy at birth indicates the number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life.

Global rank#116out of 217 countries
Go to rankingOpenglobal ranking and map

Historical trend

70.666.662.758.854.8196019922024Suriname · 2024: 70.60 yearsSuriname

Analytical takeaways

  • Suriname records 70.60 years for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in 2024, ranking #116 globally out of 217 countries.
  • Life expectancy at birth, male (years) increased from 54.81 years in 1960 to 70.60 years in 2024, a gain of 15.78 years.
  • The country sits in the middle of the global distribution for this metric, making the page a balanced entry point for comparative analysis beyond the extremes.

Comparison

Use the comparison tool or canonical pair-vs-pair pages to compare this country on the same indicator.