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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
101 Grenada 72.52 years
102 Nicaragua 72.46 years
103 Mexico 72.44 years
104 Thailand 72.34 years
105 Bulgaria 72.20 years
106 Seychelles 72.10 years
107 Azerbaijan 71.71 years
108 Latvia 71.60 years
109 Bhutan 71.57 years
110 Korea, Dem. People's Rep. 71.55 years
111 Belize 71.08 years
112 Bahamas, The 71.06 years
113 Paraguay 71.01 years
114 India 70.73 years
115 Dominican Republic 70.66 years
116 Suriname 70.60 years
117 Trinidad and Tobago 70.51 years
118 Iraq 70.50 years
119 Honduras 70.49 years
120 Guatemala 70.44 years
121 Mauritius 70.35 years
122 American Samoa 70.32 years
123 Kazakhstan 70.27 years
124 Syrian Arab Republic 70.21 years
125 Viet Nam 70.05 years
126 Samoa 69.96 years
127 Ukraine 69.79 years
128 Georgia 69.75 years
129 Belarus 69.74 years
130 Tajikistan 69.68 years
131 Egypt, Arab Rep. 69.65 years
132 Libya 69.63 years
133 Vanuatu 69.59 years
134 Uzbekistan 69.56 years
135 Tonga 69.50 years
136 St. Lucia 69.45 years
137 Solomon Islands 69.36 years
138 Indonesia 69.16 years
139 Nepal 69.09 years
140 Jamaica 69.08 years
141 Venezuela, RB 68.89 years
142 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 68.78 years
143 St. Kitts and Nevis 68.69 years
144 Greenland 68.41 years
145 Kyrgyz Republic 68.40 years
146 Dominica 68.35 years
147 Russian Federation 68.26 years
148 Cambodia 68.15 years
149 Mongolia 67.92 years
150 El Salvador 67.76 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.