Countries Where People Live the Longest (2026)

Monaco has the highest life expectancy in the world at 86.5 years. Countries with high life expectancy typically have advanced healthcare systems, high standards of living, and healthy dietary habits.

Monaco

86.5 years

San Marino

85.8 years

Hong Kong

85.4 years

Countries Where People Live the Longest - 216 countries ranked by Life Expectancy
Rank	Country	Life Expectancy	Population	Region
1	Monaco	86.5 years	38,631	Europe
2	San Marino	85.8 years	33,977	Europe
3	Hong Kong	85.4 years	7,524,100	Asia
4	Kuwait	84.6 years	4,897,263	Asia
5	Switzerland	84.4 years	9,005,582	Europe
6	Liechtenstein	84.2 years	40,450	Europe
7	French Polynesia	84.2 years	281,807	Oceania
8	Andorra	84.2 years	81,938	Europe
9	Sweden	84.1 years	10,569,709	Europe
10	Japan	84.0 years	123,975,371	Asia
11	Italy	84.0 years	58,952,704	Europe
12	Spain	83.9 years	48,848,840	Europe
13	South Korea	83.6 years	51,751,065	Asia
14	Gibraltar	83.6 years	39,329	Europe
15	Singapore	83.3 years	6,036,860	Asia
16	Macau	83.3 years	687,000	Asia
17	Israel	83.2 years	9,974,400	Asia
18	Luxembourg	83.2 years	677,012	Europe
19	Norway	83.2 years	5,572,279	Europe
20	Faroe Islands	83.1 years	54,681	Europe
21	United Arab Emirates	83.1 years	10,986,400	Asia
22	Australia	83.0 years	27,196,812	Oceania
23	Ireland	83.0 years	5,395,790	Europe
24	France	83.0 years	68,551,653	Europe
25	Malta	83.0 years	568,847	Europe
26	Iceland	82.8 years	386,506	Europe
27	Qatar	82.5 years	2,857,822	Asia
28	Bermuda	82.5 years	64,636	Americas
29	Portugal	82.4 years	10,694,681	Europe
30	Finland	82.3 years	5,619,911	Europe
31	Belgium	82.3 years	11,858,610	Europe
32	Slovenia	82.3 years	2,127,400	Europe
33	Denmark	82.3 years	5,976,992	Europe
34	Canada	82.1 years	41,288,599	Americas
35	New Zealand	82.0 years	5,287,500	Oceania
36	Austria	82.0 years	9,177,982	Europe
37	Netherlands	82.0 years	17,993,485	Europe
38	Puerto Rico	81.9 years	3,203,295	Americas
39	Greece	81.8 years	10,405,134	Europe
40	Cyprus	81.8 years	1,358,282	Europe
41	Bahrain	81.4 years	1,588,670	Asia
42	United Kingdom	81.4 years	69,226,000	Europe
43	Chile	81.4 years	19,764,771	Americas
44	Maldives	81.3 years	527,799	Asia
45	Isle of Man	81.1 years	84,160	Europe
46	Costa Rica	81.0 years	5,129,910	Americas
47	Germany	80.8 years	83,516,593	Europe
48	United States Virgin Islands	80.8 years	104,377	Americas
49	Cayman Islands	80.5 years	74,457	Americas
50	Saint Martin	80.4 years	26,129	Americas
51	Oman	80.3 years	5,281,538	Asia
52	Czechia	80.0 years	10,905,028	Europe
53	Panama	79.8 years	4,515,577	Americas
54	Albania	79.8 years	2,377,128	Europe
55	Estonia	79.3 years	1,372,341	Europe
56	Saudi Arabia	79.0 years	35,300,280	Asia
57	Northern Mariana Islands	79.0 years	44,278	Oceania
58	Croatia	78.9 years	3,866,200	Europe
59	New Caledonia	78.9 years	292,639	Oceania
60	United States	78.9 years	340,110,988	Americas
61	Poland	78.4 years	36,559,233	Europe
62	Slovakia	78.4 years	5,422,069	Europe
63	Armenia	78.3 years	3,033,500	Asia
64	Uruguay	78.3 years	3,386,588	Americas
65	Cuba	78.3 years	10,979,783	Americas
66	Kosovo	78.2 years	1,594,353	Europe
67	Turks and Caicos Islands	78.2 years	46,535	Americas
68	Bosnia and Herzegovina	78.0 years	3,164,253	Europe
69	China	78.0 years	1,408,975,000	Asia
70	Jordan	78.0 years	11,552,876	Asia
71	Peru	77.9 years	34,217,848	Americas
72	Lebanon	77.9 years	5,805,962	Asia
73	Colombia	77.9 years	52,886,363	Americas
74	Montenegro	77.9 years	623,525	Europe
75	Iran	77.8 years	91,567,738	Asia
76	Antigua and Barbuda	77.8 years	93,772	Americas
77	Sri Lanka	77.7 years	21,916,000	Asia
78	Ecuador	77.6 years	18,135,478	Americas
79	Argentina	77.5 years	45,696,159	Americas
80	British Virgin Islands	77.4 years	39,471	Americas
81	Turkey	77.4 years	85,518,661	Asia
82	Guam	77.4 years	167,777	Oceania
83	Lithuania	77.2 years	2,888,278	Europe
84	Curaçao	77.0 years	155,967	Americas
85	Malaysia	76.8 years	35,557,673	Asia
86	Hungary	76.7 years	9,562,065	Europe
87	Tunisia	76.7 years	12,277,109	Africa
88	North Macedonia	76.6 years	1,824,359	Europe
89	Thailand	76.6 years	71,668,011	Asia
90	Sint Maarten	76.5 years	43,350	Americas
91	Aruba	76.5 years	107,995	Americas
92	Algeria	76.5 years	46,814,308	Africa
93	Romania	76.5 years	19,051,804	Europe
94	Latvia	76.4 years	1,866,124	Europe
95	Barbados	76.3 years	282,467	Americas
96	Seychelles	76.3 years	121,354	Africa
97	Cape Verde	76.2 years	524,877	Africa
98	Brazil	76.0 years	211,998,573	Americas
99	Serbia	76.0 years	6,586,476	Europe
100	Bulgaria	75.8 years	6,441,421	Europe
101	Brunei	75.5 years	462,721	Asia
102	Morocco	75.5 years	38,081,173	Africa
103	Grenada	75.4 years	117,207	Americas
104	Mexico	75.3 years	130,861,007	Americas
105	Nicaragua	75.1 years	6,916,140	Americas
106	Bangladesh	74.9 years	173,562,364	Asia
107	Vietnam	74.7 years	100,987,686	Asia
108	Bahamas	74.7 years	401,283	Americas
109	Ukraine	74.7 years	37,860,221	Europe
110	Georgia	74.7 years	3,699,557	Asia
111	Azerbaijan	74.6 years	10,202,830	Asia
112	Kazakhstan	74.5 years	20,592,571	Asia
113	Belarus	74.4 years	9,132,629	Europe
114	Paraguay	74.0 years	6,929,153	Americas
115	Dominican Republic	73.9 years	11,427,557	Americas
116	Mauritius	73.8 years	1,245,779	Africa
117	Suriname	73.8 years	634,431	Americas
118	North Korea	73.7 years	26,498,823	Asia
119	Belize	73.7 years	417,072	Americas
120	Trinidad and Tobago	73.6 years	1,368,333	Americas
121	Russia	73.4 years	143,533,851	Europe
122	Bhutan	73.3 years	791,524	Asia
123	Tonga	73.1 years	104,175	Oceania
124	Honduras	73.0 years	10,825,703	Americas
125	American Samoa	73.0 years	46,765	Oceania
126	Saint Lucia	72.8 years	179,744	Americas
127	Guatemala	72.8 years	18,406,359	Americas
128	Venezuela	72.7 years	28,405,543	Americas
129	Syria	72.6 years	24,672,760	Asia
130	Uzbekistan	72.5 years	36,361,859	Asia
131	Iraq	72.4 years	46,042,015	Asia
132	Kyrgyzstan	72.4 years	7,221,868	Asia
133	Mongolia	72.4 years	3,524,788	Asia
134	El Salvador	72.3 years	6,338,193	Americas
135	Saint Kitts and Nevis	72.3 years	46,843	Americas
136	India	72.2 years	1,450,935,791	Asia
137	Tajikistan	71.9 years	10,590,927	Asia
138	Samoa	71.8 years	218,019	Oceania
139	Egypt	71.8 years	116,538,258	Africa
140	Vanuatu	71.7 years	327,777	Oceania
141	Jamaica	71.6 years	2,839,175	Americas
142	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	71.4 years	100,616	Americas
143	Moldova	71.3 years	2,402,306	Europe
144	Indonesia	71.3 years	283,487,931	Asia
145	Dominica	71.3 years	66,205	Americas
146	Libya	71.1 years	7,381,023	Africa
147	Cambodia	70.8 years	17,638,801	Asia
148	Solomon Islands	70.7 years	819,198	Oceania
149	Nepal	70.6 years	29,651,054	Asia
150	Guyana	70.3 years	831,087	Americas
151	Greenland	70.3 years	56,836	Americas
152	Turkmenistan	70.2 years	7,494,498	Asia
153	Philippines	70.0 years	115,843,670	Asia
154	São Tomé and Príncipe	69.9 years	235,536	Africa
155	Yemen	69.4 years	40,583,164	Asia
156	Palau	69.4 years	17,695	Oceania
157	Botswana	69.3 years	2,521,139	Africa
158	Laos	69.2 years	7,769,819	Asia
159	Palestine	69.2 years	5,289,152	Asia
160	Senegal	68.9 years	18,501,984	Africa
161	Eritrea	68.9 years	3,535,603	Africa
162	Bolivia	68.7 years	12,413,315	Americas
163	Mauritania	68.7 years	5,169,395	Africa
164	Gabon	68.5 years	2,538,952	Africa
165	Uganda	68.5 years	50,015,092	Africa
166	Rwanda	68.0 years	14,256,567	Africa
167	Timor-Leste	67.9 years	1,400,638	Asia
168	Pakistan	67.8 years	251,269,164	Asia
169	Ethiopia	67.6 years	132,059,767	Africa
170	Malawi	67.6 years	21,655,286	Africa
171	Namibia	67.5 years	3,030,131	Africa
172	Fiji	67.5 years	928,784	Oceania
173	Micronesia	67.4 years	113,160	Oceania
174	Tuvalu	67.3 years	9,646	Oceania
175	Tanzania	67.2 years	68,560,157	Africa
176	Myanmar	67.1 years	54,500,091	Asia
177	Marshall Islands	67.1 years	37,548	Oceania
178	Comoros	67.0 years	866,628	Africa
179	Kiribati	66.6 years	134,518	Oceania
180	Zambia	66.5 years	21,314,956	Africa
181	Sudan	66.5 years	50,448,963	Africa
182	South Africa	66.3 years	64,007,187	Africa
183	Afghanistan	66.3 years	42,647,492	Asia
184	Papua New Guinea	66.3 years	10,576,502	Oceania
185	Djibouti	66.2 years	1,168,722	Africa
186	Gambia	66.1 years	2,759,988	Africa
187	Republic of the Congo	66.0 years	6,332,961	Africa
188	Ghana	65.7 years	34,427,414	Africa
189	Haiti	65.1 years	11,772,557	Americas
190	Angola	64.8 years	37,885,849	Africa
191	Eswatini	64.3 years	1,242,822	Africa
192	Guinea-Bissau	64.3 years	2,201,352	Africa
193	Cameroon	64.0 years	29,123,744	Africa
194	Equatorial Guinea	63.9 years	1,892,516	Africa
195	Madagascar	63.8 years	31,964,956	Africa
196	Kenya	63.8 years	56,432,944	Africa
197	Burundi	63.8 years	14,047,786	Africa
198	Mozambique	63.8 years	34,631,766	Africa
199	Zimbabwe	63.1 years	16,634,373	Africa
200	Togo	62.9 years	9,515,236	Africa
201	Liberia	62.3 years	5,612,817	Africa
202	Nauru	62.3 years	11,947	Oceania
203	Ivory Coast	62.1 years	31,934,230	Africa
204	DR Congo	62.1 years	109,276,265	Africa
205	Sierra Leone	62.0 years	8,642,022	Africa
206	Niger	61.4 years	27,032,412	Africa
207	Burkina Faso	61.3 years	23,548,781	Africa
208	Benin	61.0 years	14,462,724	Africa
209	Guinea	60.9 years	14,754,785	Africa
210	Mali	60.7 years	24,478,595	Africa
211	Somalia	59.0 years	19,009,151	Africa
212	Lesotho	57.8 years	2,337,423	Africa
213	South Sudan	57.7 years	11,943,408	Africa
214	Central African Republic	57.7 years	5,330,690	Africa
215	Chad	55.2 years	20,299,123	Africa
216	Nigeria	54.6 years	232,679,478	Africa

What Determines How Long People Live?

Life expectancy at birth estimates the average years a newborn would live if current mortality patterns continued. Monaco leads at 86.5 years, followed by San Marino (85.8) and Hong Kong (85.4). The global average is approximately 74.0 years.

Countries with the highest life expectancy share common traits: universal or near-universal healthcare access, high standards of living, strong social safety nets, and dietary patterns associated with longevity.

Regional Differences in Life Expectancy

Regional averages reveal significant disparities. Europe leads at 80.5 years, while Africa averages 65.7 years — a gap driven primarily by differences in healthcare access, disease burden, and economic development.

Life expectancy has increased dramatically over the past century, from approximately 32 years globally in 1900. Advances in sanitation, nutrition, medicine, and public health have more than doubled this figure, though progress has been uneven.

Limitations of Life Expectancy Data

Life expectancy is an average that can be affected by specific demographic factors. High infant mortality in developing countries significantly lowers the average, even though many people who survive childhood live well into old age. Gender gaps are also significant — women tend to live 4-7 years longer than men in most countries.

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