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.

#1

Monaco

86.4 years

#2

San Marino

85.7 years

#3

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	38,423	Europe
2	San Marino	85.7 years	34,132	Europe
3	Hong Kong	85.3 years	7,527,500	Asia
4	Liechtenstein	84.8 years	40,900	Europe
5	French Polynesia	84.1 years	279,500	Oceania
6	Switzerland	84.1 years	9,082,848	Europe
7	Japan	84.0 years	123,210,000	Asia
8	Andorra	84.0 years	88,406	Europe
9	Spain	83.9 years	49,315,949	Europe
10	Italy	83.7 years	58,927,633	Europe
11	Gibraltar	83.5 years	38,000	Europe
12	Malta	83.5 years	574,250	Europe
13	South Korea	83.4 years	51,159,889	Asia
14	Luxembourg	83.4 years	681,973	Europe
15	Sweden	83.3 years	10,605,098	Europe
16	Israel	83.2 years	10,134,800	Asia
17	Kuwait	83.2 years	4,881,254	Asia
18	Macau	83.2 years	685,900	Asia
19	Faroe Islands	83.1 years	54,885	Europe
20	Norway	83.1 years	5,606,944	Europe
21	Australia	83.0 years	27,536,874	Oceania
22	New Zealand	83.0 years	5,324,700	Oceania
23	France	82.9 years	66,351,959	Europe
24	United Arab Emirates	82.9 years	11,294,243	Asia
25	Singapore	82.9 years	6,110,200	Asia
26	Ireland	82.9 years	5,458,600	Europe
27	Iceland	82.6 years	391,810	Europe
28	Belgium	82.4 years	11,825,551	Europe
29	Qatar	82.4 years	3,173,024	Asia
30	Bermuda	82.3 years	64,055	Americas
31	Portugal	82.3 years	10,749,635	Europe
32	Slovenia	82.0 years	2,130,638	Europe
33	Netherlands	81.9 years	18,100,436	Europe
34	Denmark	81.8 years	6,011,488	Europe
35	Finland	81.7 years	5,650,325	Europe
36	Puerto Rico	81.7 years	3,203,295	Americas
37	Canada	81.7 years	41,651,653	Americas
38	Cyprus	81.7 years	1,442,614	Europe
39	Greece	81.5 years	10,400,720	Europe
40	Austria	81.5 years	9,200,931	Europe
41	Bahrain	81.3 years	1,594,654	Asia
42	United Kingdom	81.2 years	69,281,437	Europe
43	Chile	81.2 years	20,206,953	Americas
44	Maldives	81.0 years	515,132	Asia
45	Isle of Man	81.0 years	84,530	Europe
46	Costa Rica	80.8 years	5,309,625	Americas
47	Germany	80.5 years	83,491,249	Europe
48	United States Virgin Islands	80.5 years	87,146	Americas
49	Cayman Islands	80.4 years	84,738	Americas
50	Saint Martin	80.2 years	31,496	Americas
51	Oman	80.0 years	5,343,630	Asia
52	Czechia	79.9 years	10,882,341	Europe
53	Albania	79.6 years	2,363,314	Europe
54	Panama	79.6 years	4,064,780	Americas
55	Northern Mariana Islands	78.8 years	47,329	Oceania
56	New Caledonia	78.8 years	264,596	Oceania
57	Saudi Arabia	78.7 years	35,300,280	Asia
58	Poland	78.5 years	37,392,000	Europe
59	Estonia	78.5 years	1,369,995	Europe
60	Croatia	78.5 years	3,866,233	Europe
61	United States	78.4 years	340,110,988	Americas
62	Uruguay	78.1 years	3,499,451	Americas
63	Cuba	78.1 years	9,748,007	Americas
64	Kosovo	78.0 years	1,585,566	Europe
65	Slovakia	78.0 years	5,413,813	Europe
66	Turks and Caicos Islands	78.0 years	50,828	Americas
67	China	78.0 years	1,408,280,000	Asia
68	Bosnia and Herzegovina	77.8 years	3,422,000	Europe
69	Lebanon	77.8 years	5,490,000	Asia
70	Jordan	77.8 years	11,734,000	Asia
71	Peru	77.7 years	34,350,244	Americas
72	Colombia	77.7 years	53,057,212	Americas
73	Iran	77.7 years	85,961,000	Asia
74	Antigua and Barbuda	77.6 years	103,603	Americas
75	Montenegro	77.6 years	623,327	Europe
76	Sri Lanka	77.5 years	21,763,170	Asia
77	Armenia	77.5 years	3,076,200	Asia
78	Argentina	77.4 years	46,735,004	Americas
79	Ecuador	77.4 years	18,103,660	Americas
80	British Virgin Islands	77.3 years	39,471	Americas
81	Guam	77.2 years	153,836	Oceania
82	Turkey	77.2 years	85,664,944	Asia
83	Lithuania	77.0 years	2,894,886	Europe
84	Curaçao	76.8 years	156,115	Americas
85	Hungary	76.8 years	9,539,502	Europe
86	Malaysia	76.7 years	34,231,700	Asia
87	Romania	76.6 years	19,036,031	Europe
88	Tunisia	76.5 years	11,972,169	Africa
89	Thailand	76.4 years	65,859,640	Asia
90	Sint Maarten	76.4 years	41,349	Americas
91	Aruba	76.3 years	107,566	Americas
92	Algeria	76.3 years	47,400,000	Africa
93	Serbia	76.2 years	6,567,783	Europe
94	Barbados	76.2 years	267,800	Americas
95	Cape Verde	76.1 years	491,233	Africa
96	Brazil	75.8 years	213,421,037	Americas
97	Bulgaria	75.7 years	6,437,360	Europe
98	Latvia	75.7 years	1,829,000	Europe
99	Brunei	75.3 years	455,500	Asia
100	North Macedonia	75.3 years	1,822,612	Europe
101	Morocco	75.3 years	36,828,330	Africa
102	Grenada	75.2 years	109,021	Americas
103	Mexico	75.1 years	130,575,786	Americas
104	Seychelles	75.0 years	122,729	Africa
105	Nicaragua	75.0 years	6,803,886	Americas
106	Bangladesh	74.7 years	169,828,911	Asia
107	Vietnam	74.6 years	101,343,800	Asia
108	Bahamas	74.5 years	398,165	Americas
109	Georgia	74.5 years	4,000,921	Asia
110	Azerbaijan	74.4 years	10,241,722	Asia
111	Kazakhstan	74.4 years	20,426,568	Asia
112	Belarus	74.2 years	9,109,280	Europe
113	Paraguay	73.8 years	6,109,644	Americas
114	Dominican Republic	73.7 years	10,771,504	Americas
115	North Korea	73.6 years	25,950,000	Asia
116	Suriname	73.6 years	616,500	Americas
117	Belize	73.6 years	417,634	Americas
118	Trinidad and Tobago	73.5 years	1,367,764	Americas
119	Ukraine	73.4 years	32,862,000	Europe
120	Mauritius	73.4 years	1,243,741	Africa
121	Russia	73.3 years	146,028,325	Europe
122	Bhutan	73.0 years	784,043	Asia
123	Tonga	72.9 years	100,179	Oceania
124	Honduras	72.9 years	9,892,632	Americas
125	American Samoa	72.8 years	49,710	Oceania
126	Saint Lucia	72.7 years	184,100	Americas
127	Guatemala	72.6 years	18,079,810	Americas
128	Venezuela	72.5 years	28,517,000	Americas
129	Uzbekistan	72.4 years	37,859,698	Asia
130	Iraq	72.3 years	46,118,793	Asia
131	Kyrgyzstan	72.3 years	7,281,800	Asia
132	Saint Kitts and Nevis	72.2 years	51,320	Americas
133	Syria	72.1 years	25,620,000	Asia
134	Mongolia	72.1 years	3,544,835	Asia
135	El Salvador	72.1 years	6,029,976	Americas
136	India	72.0 years	1,417,492,000	Asia
137	Tajikistan	71.8 years	10,499,000	Asia
138	Samoa	71.7 years	205,557	Oceania
139	Egypt	71.6 years	107,271,260	Africa
140	Greenland	71.5 years	56,542	Americas
141	Jamaica	71.5 years	2,825,544	Americas
142	Vanuatu	71.5 years	321,409	Oceania
143	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	71.2 years	110,872	Americas
144	Moldova	71.2 years	2,749,076	Europe
145	Indonesia	71.2 years	284,438,782	Asia
146	Dominica	71.1 years	67,408	Americas
147	Cambodia	70.7 years	17,577,760	Asia
148	Solomon Islands	70.5 years	750,325	Oceania
149	Nepal	70.3 years	29,911,840	Asia
150	Guyana	70.2 years	772,975	Americas
151	Turkmenistan	70.1 years	7,057,841	Asia
152	Philippines	69.8 years	114,123,600	Asia
153	São Tomé and Príncipe	69.7 years	209,607	Africa
154	Libya	69.3 years	7,459,000	Africa
155	Yemen	69.3 years	32,684,503	Asia
156	Palau	69.3 years	16,733	Oceania
157	Botswana	69.2 years	2,359,609	Africa
158	Laos	69.0 years	7,647,000	Asia
159	Senegal	68.7 years	18,593,258	Africa
160	Eritrea	68.6 years	3,607,000	Africa
161	Bolivia	68.6 years	11,365,333	Americas
162	Mauritania	68.5 years	4,927,532	Africa
163	Gabon	68.3 years	2,469,296	Africa
164	Uganda	68.3 years	45,905,417	Africa
165	Rwanda	67.8 years	14,104,969	Africa
166	Timor-Leste	67.7 years	1,391,221	Asia
167	Pakistan	67.7 years	241,499,431	Asia
168	Namibia	67.4 years	3,022,401	Africa
169	Malawi	67.3 years	20,734,262	Africa
170	Ethiopia	67.3 years	111,652,998	Africa
171	Fiji	67.3 years	900,869	Oceania
172	Micronesia	67.2 years	105,564	Oceania
173	Tuvalu	67.1 years	10,643	Oceania
174	Tanzania	67.0 years	68,153,004	Africa
175	Marshall Islands	66.9 years	42,418	Oceania
176	Myanmar	66.9 years	51,316,756	Asia
177	Comoros	66.8 years	919,901	Africa
178	Kiribati	66.5 years	120,740	Oceania
179	Zambia	66.3 years	19,693,423	Africa
180	Sudan	66.3 years	51,662,000	Africa
181	South Africa	66.1 years	63,100,945	Africa
182	Papua New Guinea	66.1 years	11,781,559	Oceania
183	Afghanistan	66.0 years	43,844,000	Asia
184	Djibouti	66.0 years	1,066,809	Africa
185	Gambia	65.9 years	2,422,712	Africa
186	Republic of the Congo	65.8 years	6,142,180	Africa
187	Ghana	65.5 years	33,742,380	Africa
188	Palestine	65.2 years	5,483,450	Asia
189	Haiti	64.9 years	11,867,032	Americas
190	Angola	64.6 years	36,170,961	Africa
191	Eswatini	64.1 years	1,235,549	Africa
192	Guinea-Bissau	64.1 years	1,781,308	Africa
193	Equatorial Guinea	63.7 years	1,668,768	Africa
194	Cameroon	63.7 years	29,442,327	Africa
195	Kenya	63.6 years	53,330,978	Africa
196	Burundi	63.6 years	12,332,788	Africa
197	Madagascar	63.6 years	31,727,042	Africa
198	Mozambique	63.6 years	34,090,466	Africa
199	Zimbabwe	62.8 years	17,073,087	Africa
200	Togo	62.7 years	8,095,498	Africa
201	Liberia	62.2 years	5,248,621	Africa
202	Nauru	62.1 years	11,680	Oceania
203	Ivory Coast	61.9 years	31,719,275	Africa
204	DR Congo	61.9 years	112,832,000	Africa
205	Sierra Leone	61.8 years	9,077,691	Africa
206	Niger	61.2 years	26,312,034	Africa
207	Burkina Faso	61.1 years	24,070,553	Africa
208	Benin	60.8 years	13,224,860	Africa
209	Guinea	60.7 years	14,363,931	Africa
210	Mali	60.4 years	22,395,489	Africa
211	Somalia	58.8 years	19,655,000	Africa
212	South Sudan	57.6 years	15,786,898	Africa
213	Central African Republic	57.4 years	6,470,307	Africa
214	Lesotho	57.4 years	2,116,427	Africa
215	Chad	55.1 years	19,340,757	Africa
216	Nigeria	54.5 years	223,800,000	Africa