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Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

For 2024, Life expectancy at birth, male (years) is led by Monaco at 84.56 years. This page combines ranking, historical trend, and map-based distribution.

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.

Countries ranked 217
Snapshot year 2024
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0.021.142.363.484.6MonacoMonaco: 84.56 years84.6San MarinoSan Marino: 84.32 years84.3KuwaitKuwait: 83.80 years83.8Hong Kong SAR, ChinaHong Kong SAR, China: 82.70 years82.7SwitzerlandSwitzerland: 82.70 years82.7SwedenSweden: 82.60 years82.6AndorraAndorra: 82.26 years82.3LiechtensteinLiechtenstein: 82.20 years82.2United Arab EmiratesUnited Arab Emirates: 82.17 years82.2ItalyItaly: 82.00 years82.0French PolynesiaFrench Polynesia: 81.90 years81.9QatarQatar: 81.78 years81.8
Rank Country Value
51 Albania 77.92 years
52 Virgin Islands (U.S.) 77.60 years
53 Saudi Arabia 77.33 years
54 Northern Mariana Islands 77.28 years
55 Czechia 77.10 years
56 St. Martin (French part) 76.99 years
57 Panama 76.88 years
58 United States 76.50 years
59 New Caledonia 76.46 years
60 Croatia 76.10 years
61 Kosovo 76.01 years
62 Turks and Caicos Islands 76.01 years
63 Iran, Islamic Rep. 76.00 years
64 Jordan 75.89 years
65 Lebanon 75.88 years
66 Cuba 75.86 years
67 Peru 75.63 years
68 Montenegro 75.50 years
69 China 75.25 years
70 Slovak Republic 75.20 years
71 Colombia 75.16 years
72 Armenia 75.10 years
73 Estonia 75.10 years
74 Algeria 75.10 years
75 Argentina 74.98 years
76 Ecuador 74.88 years
77 Poland 74.80 years
78 Antigua and Barbuda 74.74 years
79 British Virgin Islands 74.70 years
80 Bosnia and Herzegovina 74.65 years
81 Turkiye 74.62 years
82 North Macedonia 74.48 years
83 Malaysia 74.45 years
84 Sri Lanka 74.45 years
85 Uruguay 74.38 years
86 Tunisia 74.13 years
87 Sint Maarten (Dutch part) 73.85 years
88 Aruba 73.85 years
89 Barbados 73.75 years
90 Hungary 73.70 years
91 Serbia 73.70 years
92 Guam 73.66 years
93 Brunei Darussalam 73.49 years
94 Morocco 73.35 years
95 Bangladesh 73.30 years
96 Cabo Verde 73.05 years
97 Lithuania 73.00 years
98 Brazil 72.95 years
99 Romania 72.80 years
100 Curacao 72.66 years
Some World Bank indicators are published with a lag. The site always shows the latest actually available year for each country and indicator.

Analytical takeaways

  • Monaco sits at the top of the Life expectancy at birth, male (years) distribution in 2024 at 84.56 years, with a lead of 0.24 years over the next country.
  • The median country in the current global snapshot is Bhutan at 71.57 years, which helps frame the center of the distribution rather than only the leaders.
  • At the lower end of the current sample sits Chad (53.36 years), and the page currently covers 217 countries.