Countries Where People Live the Longest (2026)

Monaco has the highest life expectancy in the world at 86.4 years. Countries with high life expectancy typically have advanced healthcare systems, high standards of living, and healthy dietary habits.

Monaco

86.4 years

San Marino

85.7 years

Hong Kong

85.3 years

Countries Where People Live the Longest - 216 countries ranked by Life Expectancy
Rank	Country	Life Expectancy	Population	Region
1	Monaco	86.4 years	38,631	Europe
2	San Marino	85.7 years	33,977	Europe
3	Hong Kong	85.3 years	7,524,100	Asia
4	Liechtenstein	84.8 years	40,450	Europe
5	French Polynesia	84.1 years	281,807	Oceania
6	Switzerland	84.1 years	9,005,582	Europe
7	Japan	84.0 years	123,975,371	Asia
8	Andorra	84.0 years	81,938	Europe
9	Spain	83.9 years	48,848,840	Europe
10	Italy	83.7 years	58,952,704	Europe
11	Gibraltar	83.5 years	39,329	Europe
12	Malta	83.5 years	568,847	Europe
13	South Korea	83.4 years	51,751,065	Asia
14	Luxembourg	83.4 years	677,012	Europe
15	Sweden	83.3 years	10,569,709	Europe
16	Israel	83.2 years	9,974,400	Asia
17	Kuwait	83.2 years	4,897,263	Asia
18	Macau	83.2 years	687,000	Asia
19	Faroe Islands	83.1 years	54,681	Europe
20	Norway	83.1 years	5,572,279	Europe
21	Australia	83.0 years	27,196,812	Oceania
22	New Zealand	83.0 years	5,287,500	Oceania
23	France	82.9 years	68,551,653	Europe
24	United Arab Emirates	82.9 years	10,986,400	Asia
25	Singapore	82.9 years	6,036,860	Asia
26	Ireland	82.9 years	5,395,790	Europe
27	Iceland	82.6 years	386,506	Europe
28	Belgium	82.4 years	11,858,610	Europe
29	Qatar	82.4 years	2,857,822	Asia
30	Bermuda	82.3 years	64,636	Americas
31	Portugal	82.3 years	10,694,681	Europe
32	Slovenia	82.0 years	2,127,400	Europe
33	Netherlands	81.9 years	17,993,485	Europe
34	Denmark	81.8 years	5,976,992	Europe
35	Finland	81.7 years	5,619,911	Europe
36	Puerto Rico	81.7 years	3,203,295	Americas
37	Canada	81.7 years	41,288,599	Americas
38	Cyprus	81.7 years	1,358,282	Europe
39	Greece	81.5 years	10,405,134	Europe
40	Austria	81.5 years	9,177,982	Europe
41	Bahrain	81.3 years	1,588,670	Asia
42	United Kingdom	81.2 years	69,226,000	Europe
43	Chile	81.2 years	19,764,771	Americas
44	Maldives	81.0 years	527,799	Asia
45	Isle of Man	81.0 years	84,160	Europe
46	Costa Rica	80.8 years	5,129,910	Americas
47	Germany	80.5 years	83,516,593	Europe
48	United States Virgin Islands	80.5 years	104,377	Americas
49	Cayman Islands	80.4 years	74,457	Americas
50	Saint Martin	80.2 years	26,129	Americas
51	Oman	80.0 years	5,281,538	Asia
52	Czechia	79.9 years	10,905,028	Europe
53	Albania	79.6 years	2,377,128	Europe
54	Panama	79.6 years	4,515,577	Americas
55	Northern Mariana Islands	78.8 years	44,278	Oceania
56	New Caledonia	78.8 years	292,639	Oceania
57	Saudi Arabia	78.7 years	35,300,280	Asia
58	Poland	78.5 years	36,559,233	Europe
59	Estonia	78.5 years	1,372,341	Europe
60	Croatia	78.5 years	3,866,200	Europe
61	United States	78.4 years	340,110,988	Americas
62	Uruguay	78.1 years	3,386,588	Americas
63	Cuba	78.1 years	10,979,783	Americas
64	Kosovo	78.0 years	1,594,353	Europe
65	Slovakia	78.0 years	5,422,069	Europe
66	Turks and Caicos Islands	78.0 years	46,535	Americas
67	China	78.0 years	1,408,975,000	Asia
68	Bosnia and Herzegovina	77.8 years	3,164,253	Europe
69	Lebanon	77.8 years	5,805,962	Asia
70	Jordan	77.8 years	11,552,876	Asia
71	Peru	77.7 years	34,217,848	Americas
72	Colombia	77.7 years	52,886,363	Americas
73	Iran	77.7 years	91,567,738	Asia
74	Antigua and Barbuda	77.6 years	93,772	Americas
75	Montenegro	77.6 years	623,525	Europe
76	Sri Lanka	77.5 years	21,916,000	Asia
77	Armenia	77.5 years	3,033,500	Asia
78	Argentina	77.4 years	45,696,159	Americas
79	Ecuador	77.4 years	18,135,478	Americas
80	British Virgin Islands	77.3 years	39,471	Americas
81	Guam	77.2 years	167,777	Oceania
82	Turkey	77.2 years	85,518,661	Asia
83	Lithuania	77.0 years	2,888,278	Europe
84	Curaçao	76.8 years	155,967	Americas
85	Hungary	76.8 years	9,562,065	Europe
86	Malaysia	76.7 years	35,557,673	Asia
87	Romania	76.6 years	19,051,804	Europe
88	Tunisia	76.5 years	12,277,109	Africa
89	Thailand	76.4 years	71,668,011	Asia
90	Sint Maarten	76.4 years	43,350	Americas
91	Aruba	76.3 years	107,995	Americas
92	Algeria	76.3 years	46,814,308	Africa
93	Serbia	76.2 years	6,586,476	Europe
94	Barbados	76.2 years	282,467	Americas
95	Cape Verde	76.1 years	524,877	Africa
96	Brazil	75.8 years	211,998,573	Americas
97	Bulgaria	75.7 years	6,441,421	Europe
98	Latvia	75.7 years	1,866,124	Europe
99	Brunei	75.3 years	462,721	Asia
100	North Macedonia	75.3 years	1,824,359	Europe
101	Morocco	75.3 years	38,081,173	Africa
102	Grenada	75.2 years	117,207	Americas
103	Mexico	75.1 years	130,861,007	Americas
104	Seychelles	75.0 years	121,354	Africa
105	Nicaragua	75.0 years	6,916,140	Americas
106	Bangladesh	74.7 years	173,562,364	Asia
107	Vietnam	74.6 years	100,987,686	Asia
108	Bahamas	74.5 years	401,283	Americas
109	Georgia	74.5 years	3,699,557	Asia
110	Azerbaijan	74.4 years	10,202,830	Asia
111	Kazakhstan	74.4 years	20,592,571	Asia
112	Belarus	74.2 years	9,132,629	Europe
113	Paraguay	73.8 years	6,929,153	Americas
114	Dominican Republic	73.7 years	11,427,557	Americas
115	North Korea	73.6 years	26,498,823	Asia
116	Suriname	73.6 years	634,431	Americas
117	Belize	73.6 years	417,072	Americas
118	Trinidad and Tobago	73.5 years	1,368,333	Americas
119	Ukraine	73.4 years	37,860,221	Europe
120	Mauritius	73.4 years	1,245,779	Africa
121	Russia	73.3 years	143,533,851	Europe
122	Bhutan	73.0 years	791,524	Asia
123	Tonga	72.9 years	104,175	Oceania
124	Honduras	72.9 years	10,825,703	Americas
125	American Samoa	72.8 years	46,765	Oceania
126	Saint Lucia	72.7 years	179,744	Americas
127	Guatemala	72.6 years	18,406,359	Americas
128	Venezuela	72.5 years	28,405,543	Americas
129	Uzbekistan	72.4 years	36,361,859	Asia
130	Iraq	72.3 years	46,042,015	Asia
131	Kyrgyzstan	72.3 years	7,221,868	Asia
132	Saint Kitts and Nevis	72.2 years	46,843	Americas
133	Syria	72.1 years	24,672,760	Asia
134	Mongolia	72.1 years	3,524,788	Asia
135	El Salvador	72.1 years	6,338,193	Americas
136	India	72.0 years	1,450,935,791	Asia
137	Tajikistan	71.8 years	10,590,927	Asia
138	Samoa	71.7 years	218,019	Oceania
139	Egypt	71.6 years	116,538,258	Africa
140	Greenland	71.5 years	56,836	Americas
141	Jamaica	71.5 years	2,839,175	Americas
142	Vanuatu	71.5 years	327,777	Oceania
143	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	71.2 years	100,616	Americas
144	Moldova	71.2 years	2,402,306	Europe
145	Indonesia	71.2 years	283,487,931	Asia
146	Dominica	71.1 years	66,205	Americas
147	Cambodia	70.7 years	17,638,801	Asia
148	Solomon Islands	70.5 years	819,198	Oceania
149	Nepal	70.3 years	29,651,054	Asia
150	Guyana	70.2 years	831,087	Americas
151	Turkmenistan	70.1 years	7,494,498	Asia
152	Philippines	69.8 years	115,843,670	Asia
153	São Tomé and Príncipe	69.7 years	235,536	Africa
154	Libya	69.3 years	7,381,023	Africa
155	Yemen	69.3 years	40,583,164	Asia
156	Palau	69.3 years	17,695	Oceania
157	Botswana	69.2 years	2,521,139	Africa
158	Laos	69.0 years	7,769,819	Asia
159	Senegal	68.7 years	18,501,984	Africa
160	Eritrea	68.6 years	3,535,603	Africa
161	Bolivia	68.6 years	12,413,315	Americas
162	Mauritania	68.5 years	5,169,395	Africa
163	Gabon	68.3 years	2,538,952	Africa
164	Uganda	68.3 years	50,015,092	Africa
165	Rwanda	67.8 years	14,256,567	Africa
166	Timor-Leste	67.7 years	1,400,638	Asia
167	Pakistan	67.7 years	251,269,164	Asia
168	Namibia	67.4 years	3,030,131	Africa
169	Malawi	67.3 years	21,655,286	Africa
170	Ethiopia	67.3 years	132,059,767	Africa
171	Fiji	67.3 years	928,784	Oceania
172	Micronesia	67.2 years	113,160	Oceania
173	Tuvalu	67.1 years	9,646	Oceania
174	Tanzania	67.0 years	68,560,157	Africa
175	Marshall Islands	66.9 years	37,548	Oceania
176	Myanmar	66.9 years	54,500,091	Asia
177	Comoros	66.8 years	866,628	Africa
178	Kiribati	66.5 years	134,518	Oceania
179	Zambia	66.3 years	21,314,956	Africa
180	Sudan	66.3 years	50,448,963	Africa
181	South Africa	66.1 years	64,007,187	Africa
182	Papua New Guinea	66.1 years	10,576,502	Oceania
183	Afghanistan	66.0 years	42,647,492	Asia
184	Djibouti	66.0 years	1,168,722	Africa
185	Gambia	65.9 years	2,759,988	Africa
186	Republic of the Congo	65.8 years	6,332,961	Africa
187	Ghana	65.5 years	34,427,414	Africa
188	Palestine	65.2 years	5,289,152	Asia
189	Haiti	64.9 years	11,772,557	Americas
190	Angola	64.6 years	37,885,849	Africa
191	Eswatini	64.1 years	1,242,822	Africa
192	Guinea-Bissau	64.1 years	2,201,352	Africa
193	Equatorial Guinea	63.7 years	1,892,516	Africa
194	Cameroon	63.7 years	29,123,744	Africa
195	Kenya	63.6 years	56,432,944	Africa
196	Burundi	63.6 years	14,047,786	Africa
197	Madagascar	63.6 years	31,964,956	Africa
198	Mozambique	63.6 years	34,631,766	Africa
199	Zimbabwe	62.8 years	16,634,373	Africa
200	Togo	62.7 years	9,515,236	Africa
201	Liberia	62.2 years	5,612,817	Africa
202	Nauru	62.1 years	11,947	Oceania
203	Ivory Coast	61.9 years	31,934,230	Africa
204	DR Congo	61.9 years	109,276,265	Africa
205	Sierra Leone	61.8 years	8,642,022	Africa
206	Niger	61.2 years	27,032,412	Africa
207	Burkina Faso	61.1 years	23,548,781	Africa
208	Benin	60.8 years	14,462,724	Africa
209	Guinea	60.7 years	14,754,785	Africa
210	Mali	60.4 years	24,478,595	Africa
211	Somalia	58.8 years	19,009,151	Africa
212	South Sudan	57.6 years	11,943,408	Africa
213	Central African Republic	57.4 years	5,330,690	Africa
214	Lesotho	57.4 years	2,337,423	Africa
215	Chad	55.1 years	20,299,123	Africa
216	Nigeria	54.5 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 86.4 years, followed by San Marino (85.7) and Hong Kong (85.3). The global average is approximately 73.8 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 80.3 years, while Africa averages 65.4 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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