List of world regions by life expectancy
World regions by life expectancy at birth
This is a list of world regions by life expectancy at birth.
List by the World Bank Group (2022)
Estimation of the World Bank Group for 2022.[1][2][3] The values in the World Bank Group tables are rounded. All calculations are based on raw data, so due to the nuances of rounding, in some places illusory inconsistencies of indicators arose, with a size of 0.01 year.
Countries & territories | 2022 | Historical data | recovery from COVID-19: 2019→2022 | |||||||||||
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All | Male | Female | Sex gap | 2014 | 2014 →2019 | 2019 | 2019 →2020 | 2020 | 2020 →2021 | 2021 | 2021 →2022 | 2022 | ||
European Union | 80.80 | 78.19 | 83.56 | 5.38 | 80.87 | 0.44 | 81.31 | −0.86 | 80.45 | −0.13 | 80.32 | 0.49 | 80.80 | −0.51 |
North America | 77.84 | 75.25 | 80.55 | 5.30 | 79.14 | 0.00 | 79.14 | −1.68 | 77.46 | −0.59 | 76.87 | 0.97 | 77.84 | −1.30 |
Europe & Central Asia | 77.84 | 74.79 | 81.06 | 6.27 | 77.30 | 0.89 | 78.19 | −1.23 | 76.96 | −0.29 | 76.67 | 1.17 | 77.84 | −0.35 |
East Asia & Pacific | 76.90 | 74.22 | 79.71 | 5.49 | 75.73 | 1.07 | 76.80 | −0.04 | 76.76 | −0.37 | 76.39 | 0.51 | 76.90 | 0.10 |
Central Europe & the Baltics | 76.79 | 73.21 | 80.56 | 7.35 | 76.68 | 0.59 | 77.27 | −1.18 | 76.08 | −1.28 | 74.80 | 1.99 | 76.79 | −0.48 |
Latin America & Caribbean | 73.75 | 70.65 | 76.93 | 6.28 | 74.55 | 0.49 | 75.04 | −2.00 | 73.04 | −0.89 | 72.15 | 1.60 | 73.75 | −1.29 |
Middle East & North Africa | 73.21 | 71.12 | 75.52 | 4.40 | 72.62 | 1.34 | 73.96 | −1.01 | 72.95 | −0.20 | 72.75 | 0.47 | 73.21 | −0.75 |
World | 72.00 | 69.60 | 74.53 | 4.93 | 71.88 | 1.10 | 72.98 | −0.74 | 72.24 | −0.92 | 71.33 | 0.67 | 72.00 | −0.98 |
Arab world | 71.23 | 69.26 | 73.37 | 4.12 | 70.49 | 1.35 | 71.84 | −0.92 | 70.92 | −0.11 | 70.81 | 0.41 | 71.23 | −0.62 |
South Asia | 68.16 | 66.43 | 70.06 | 3.63 | 68.64 | 1.83 | 70.47 | −0.72 | 69.75 | −2.17 | 67.58 | 0.58 | 68.16 | −2.31 |
Africa Eastern & Southern | 62.90 | 60.36 | 65.49 | 5.13 | 61.34 | 2.42 | 63.76 | −0.44 | 63.31 | −0.86 | 62.45 | 0.44 | 62.90 | −0.86 |
Sub-Saharan Africa | 60.76 | 58.81 | 62.77 | 3.97 | 59.14 | 2.10 | 61.24 | −0.40 | 60.85 | −0.61 | 60.24 | 0.52 | 60.76 | −0.48 |
Africa Western & Central | 57.63 | 56.56 | 58.72 | 2.16 | 55.92 | 1.63 | 57.56 | −0.33 | 57.23 | −0.24 | 56.99 | 0.64 | 57.63 | 0.07 |
United Nations (2022)
Estimation of the analytical agency of the UN.[4][5][6] By default, the list is sorted by 2022.
World regions | 2019 | 2019 →2021 | 2021 | 2021 →2022 | 2022 | 2019 →2022 | |||||||||
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overall | male | female | F Δ M | overall | male | female | F Δ M | overall | male | female | F Δ M | ||||
East Asia & Pacific | 75.4 | 73.1 | 78.0 | 4.9 | 0.2 | 75.6 | 72.9 | 78.5 | 5.6 | 0.6 | 76.2 | 73.6 | 79.0 | 5.4 | 0.8 |
Latin America & Caribbean | 75.6 | 72.4 | 78.7 | 6.3 | −3.5 | 72.1 | 68.8 | 75.6 | 6.8 | 1.6 | 73.7 | 70.6 | 76.9 | 6.3 | −1.9 |
Europe & Central Asia | 74.4 | 71.1 | 77.7 | 6.6 | −1.5 | 72.9 | 69.4 | 76.4 | 7.0 | 0.7 | 73.6 | 70.2 | 77.0 | 6.8 | −0.8 |
World | 72.8 | 70.6 | 75.0 | 4.4 | −1.4 | 71.4 | 68.9 | 74.0 | 5.1 | 0.6 | 72.0 | 69.6 | 74.5 | 4.9 | −0.8 |
Arab states | 72.1 | 70.4 | 73.9 | 3.5 | −1.2 | 70.9 | 68.9 | 73.1 | 4.2 | 0.4 | 71.3 | 69.3 | 73.5 | 4.2 | −0.8 |
South Asia | 69.9 | 68.7 | 71.3 | 2.6 | −2.0 | 67.9 | 66.1 | 69.8 | 3.7 | 0.5 | 68.4 | 66.7 | 70.4 | 3.7 | −1.5 |
Sub-Saharan Africa | 61.5 | 59.8 | 63.3 | 3.5 | −1.4 | 60.1 | 58.2 | 62.1 | 3.9 | 0.5 | 60.6 | 58.7 | 62.6 | 3.9 | −0.9 |
List by World Health Organization (2019)
Estimation of the World Health Organization for 2019.[7]
WHO regions[8] | Life expectancy at birth | HALE at birth | Life expectancy at age 60 | HALE at age 60 | ||||||||||||||||
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All | M | F | FΔM | Δ 2000 | All | M | F | FΔM | Δ 2000 | All | M | F | FΔM | Δ 2000 | All | M | F | FΔM | Δ 2000 | |
Europe[9] | 78.2 | 75.1 | 81.3 | 6.2 | 5.7 | 68.3 | 66.6 | 70.0 | 3.4 | 4.6 | 22.5 | 20.5 | 24.3 | 3.8 | 2.9 | 17.1 | 15.8 | 18.3 | 2.5 | 2.1 |
Western Pacific[10] | 77.7 | 74.8 | 80.8 | 6.0 | 5.3 | 68.6 | 67.0 | 70.2 | 3.2 | 4.3 | 21.8 | 19.8 | 23.9 | 4.1 | 2.5 | 16.5 | 15.4 | 17.7 | 2.3 | 1.8 |
Americas[11] | 77.2 | 74.5 | 79.8 | 5.3 | 3.1 | 66.2 | 64.8 | 67.5 | 2.7 | 2.1 | 22.7 | 21.2 | 24.0 | 2.8 | 1.6 | 16.6 | 15.7 | 17.4 | 1.7 | 0.9 |
World | 73.3 | 70.8 | 75.9 | 5.1 | 6.5 | 63.7 | 62.5 | 64.9 | 2.4 | 5.4 | 21.1 | 19.5 | 22.7 | 3.2 | 2.3 | 15.8 | 14.8 | 16.6 | 1.8 | 1.7 |
South-East Asia[12] | 71.4 | 69.9 | 73.1 | 3.2 | 8.0 | 61.5 | 61.1 | 61.9 | 0.8 | 7.0 | 19.1 | 18.2 | 20.0 | 1.8 | 2.5 | 13.7 | 13.3 | 14.1 | 0.8 | 1.7 |
Eastern Mediterranean[13] | 69.7 | 68.3 | 71.3 | 3.0 | 4.7 | 60.4 | 60.2 | 60.7 | 0.5 | 3.8 | 18.5 | 17.8 | 19.3 | 1.5 | 1.1 | 13.6 | 13.4 | 13.9 | 0.5 | 0.7 |
Africa[14] | 64.5 | 62.4 | 66.6 | 4.2 | 11.8 | 56.0 | 55.0 | 57.1 | 2.1 | 10.2 | 17.9 | 16.7 | 19.0 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 13.3 | 12.6 | 13.9 | 1.3 | 1.8 |
Charts
- Life expectancy in the world on average[1]
- Comparison of life expectancy in countries with different income[1]
- Life expectancy and HALE in regions of WHO in 2019[7]
- Elaboration by sex[7]
See also
References
- ^ a b c "Life expectancy at birth, total". The World Bank Group. 30 May 2024. Retrieved 16 June 2024.
- ^ "Life expectancy at birth, male". The World Bank Group. 30 May 2024. Retrieved 16 June 2024.
- ^ "Life expectancy at birth, female". The World Bank Group. 30 May 2024. Retrieved 16 June 2024.
- ^ "Human Development Report 2020 (tables 1 and 4)" (PDF). UN Development Programme. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 December 2020. Retrieved 28 February 2021.
- ^ "Human Development Report 2021/2022 (tables 1 and 4)" (PDF). UN Development Programme. Retrieved 28 June 2023.
- ^ "Human Development Report 2023/2024 (tables 1 and 4)" (PDF). UN Development Programme. 13 March 2024. Retrieved 4 April 2024.
- ^ a b c "Life expectancy and Healthy life expectancy, data by WHO region". World Health Organization. 7 December 2020.
- ^ "WHO: Countries". World Health Organization. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
- ^ "WHO: Europe: Countries". World Health Organization. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
- ^ "WHO: Western Pacific: Where we work". World Health Organization. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
- ^ "WHO: PAHO: Countries and Centers". World Health Organization. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
- ^ "WHO: South-East Asia: Where we work". World Health Organization. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
- ^ "WHO: Eastern Mediterranean: Countries". World Health Organization. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
- ^ "WHO: Africa: Countries". World Health Organization. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
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