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High income
Life expectancy at birth, total (years)

Within the “High income” group, Monaco leads Life expectancy at birth, total (years) in 2024 at 86.50 years, while Naoero sits at the lower end of the current snapshot with 62.28 years. This format is well suited to long-tail regional and income-group queries.

Group leaders

0.021.643.264.986.5MonacoMonaco: 86.50 years86.5San MarinoSan Marino: 85.82 years85.8Hong Kong SAR, ChinaHong Kong SAR, China: 85.39 years85.4KuwaitKuwait: 84.58 years84.6SwitzerlandSwitzerland: 84.41 years84.4LiechtensteinLiechtenstein: 84.20 years84.2French PolynesiaFrench Polynesia: 84.19 years84.2AndorraAndorra: 84.19 years84.2SwedenSweden: 84.06 years84.1JapanJapan: 84.04 years84.0ItalyItaly: 83.95 years84.0SpainSpain: 83.89 years83.9

Country table

#CountryValue
51 Oman 80.25 years
52 Czechia 79.98 years
53 Panama 79.78 years
54 Estonia 79.30 years
55 Saudi Arabia 78.98 years
56 Northern Mariana Islands 78.95 years
57 Croatia 78.93 years
58 New Caledonia 78.92 years
59 United States 78.89 years
60 Poland 78.41 years
61 Slovak Republic 78.37 years
62 Uruguay 78.29 years
63 Turks and Caicos Islands 78.18 years
64 Antigua and Barbuda 77.77 years
65 British Virgin Islands 77.43 years
66 Guam 77.42 years
67 Lithuania 77.20 years
68 Curacao 76.99 years
69 Hungary 76.72 years
70 Sint Maarten (Dutch part) 76.53 years
71 Aruba 76.50 years
72 Romania 76.46 years
73 Latvia 76.43 years
74 Barbados 76.33 years
75 Seychelles 76.30 years
76 Bulgaria 75.76 years
77 Brunei Darussalam 75.50 years
78 Bahamas, The 74.71 years
79 Trinidad and Tobago 73.62 years
80 Russian Federation 73.44 years
81 American Samoa 72.99 years
82 St. Kitts and Nevis 72.28 years
83 Guyana 70.32 years
84 Greenland 70.27 years
85 Palau 69.38 years
86 Naoero 62.28 years

Analytical takeaways

  • Inside the High income group for Life expectancy at birth, total (years) in 2024, Monaco leads with a gap of 0.68 years to the next country.
  • The peer set on this page covers 86 countries, and the lower end of the current distribution sits with Naoero at 62.28 years.
  • This page bridges the global ranking context with a more relevant regional or income-based comparison layer.