Countries with Lowest Life Expectancy (2026)

Nigeria has the lowest life expectancy at 54.5 years. Countries with low life expectancy often face challenges including limited healthcare access, poverty, conflict, and infectious disease burden.

#1

Nigeria

54.5 years

#2

Chad

55.1 years

#3

Lesotho

57.4 years

Countries with Lowest Life Expectancy - 216 countries ranked by Life Expectancy

Rank	Country	Life Expectancy	Population	Region
1	Nigeria	54.5 years	223,800,000	Africa
2	Chad	55.1 years	19,340,757	Africa
3	Lesotho	57.4 years	2,116,427	Africa
4	Central African Republic	57.4 years	6,470,307	Africa
5	South Sudan	57.6 years	15,786,898	Africa
6	Somalia	58.8 years	19,655,000	Africa
7	Mali	60.4 years	22,395,489	Africa
8	Guinea	60.7 years	14,363,931	Africa
9	Benin	60.8 years	13,224,860	Africa
10	Burkina Faso	61.1 years	24,070,553	Africa
11	Niger	61.2 years	26,312,034	Africa
12	Sierra Leone	61.8 years	9,077,691	Africa
13	DR Congo	61.9 years	112,832,000	Africa
14	Ivory Coast	61.9 years	31,719,275	Africa
15	Nauru	62.1 years	11,680	Oceania
16	Liberia	62.2 years	5,248,621	Africa
17	Togo	62.7 years	8,095,498	Africa
18	Zimbabwe	62.8 years	17,073,087	Africa
19	Mozambique	63.6 years	34,090,466	Africa
20	Madagascar	63.6 years	31,727,042	Africa
21	Kenya	63.6 years	53,330,978	Africa
22	Burundi	63.6 years	12,332,788	Africa
23	Cameroon	63.7 years	29,442,327	Africa
24	Equatorial Guinea	63.7 years	1,668,768	Africa
25	Guinea-Bissau	64.1 years	1,781,308	Africa
26	Eswatini	64.1 years	1,235,549	Africa
27	Angola	64.6 years	36,170,961	Africa
28	Haiti	64.9 years	11,867,032	Americas
29	Palestine	65.2 years	5,483,450	Asia
30	Ghana	65.5 years	33,742,380	Africa
31	Republic of the Congo	65.8 years	6,142,180	Africa
32	Gambia	65.9 years	2,422,712	Africa
33	Djibouti	66.0 years	1,066,809	Africa
34	Afghanistan	66.0 years	43,844,000	Asia
35	Papua New Guinea	66.1 years	11,781,559	Oceania
36	South Africa	66.1 years	63,100,945	Africa
37	Sudan	66.3 years	51,662,000	Africa
38	Zambia	66.3 years	19,693,423	Africa
39	Kiribati	66.5 years	120,740	Oceania
40	Comoros	66.8 years	919,901	Africa
41	Myanmar	66.9 years	51,316,756	Asia
42	Marshall Islands	66.9 years	42,418	Oceania
43	Tanzania	67.0 years	68,153,004	Africa
44	Tuvalu	67.1 years	10,643	Oceania
45	Micronesia	67.2 years	105,564	Oceania
46	Ethiopia	67.3 years	111,652,998	Africa
47	Fiji	67.3 years	900,869	Oceania
48	Malawi	67.3 years	20,734,262	Africa
49	Namibia	67.4 years	3,022,401	Africa
50	Pakistan	67.7 years	241,499,431	Asia
51	Timor-Leste	67.7 years	1,391,221	Asia
52	Rwanda	67.8 years	14,104,969	Africa
53	Uganda	68.3 years	45,905,417	Africa
54	Gabon	68.3 years	2,469,296	Africa
55	Mauritania	68.5 years	4,927,532	Africa
56	Bolivia	68.6 years	11,365,333	Americas
57	Eritrea	68.6 years	3,607,000	Africa
58	Senegal	68.7 years	18,593,258	Africa
59	Laos	69.0 years	7,647,000	Asia
60	Botswana	69.2 years	2,359,609	Africa
61	Palau	69.3 years	16,733	Oceania
62	Yemen	69.3 years	32,684,503	Asia
63	Libya	69.3 years	7,459,000	Africa
64	São Tomé and Príncipe	69.7 years	209,607	Africa
65	Philippines	69.8 years	114,123,600	Asia
66	Turkmenistan	70.1 years	7,057,841	Asia
67	Guyana	70.2 years	772,975	Americas
68	Nepal	70.3 years	29,911,840	Asia
69	Solomon Islands	70.5 years	750,325	Oceania
70	Cambodia	70.7 years	17,577,760	Asia
71	Dominica	71.1 years	67,408	Americas
72	Indonesia	71.2 years	284,438,782	Asia
73	Moldova	71.2 years	2,749,076	Europe
74	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	71.2 years	110,872	Americas
75	Jamaica	71.5 years	2,825,544	Americas
76	Vanuatu	71.5 years	321,409	Oceania
77	Greenland	71.5 years	56,542	Americas
78	Egypt	71.6 years	107,271,260	Africa
79	Samoa	71.7 years	205,557	Oceania
80	Tajikistan	71.8 years	10,499,000	Asia
81	India	72.0 years	1,417,492,000	Asia
82	El Salvador	72.1 years	6,029,976	Americas
83	Syria	72.1 years	25,620,000	Asia
84	Mongolia	72.1 years	3,544,835	Asia
85	Saint Kitts and Nevis	72.2 years	51,320	Americas
86	Kyrgyzstan	72.3 years	7,281,800	Asia
87	Iraq	72.3 years	46,118,793	Asia
88	Uzbekistan	72.4 years	37,859,698	Asia
89	Venezuela	72.5 years	28,517,000	Americas
90	Guatemala	72.6 years	18,079,810	Americas
91	Saint Lucia	72.7 years	184,100	Americas
92	American Samoa	72.8 years	49,710	Oceania
93	Honduras	72.9 years	9,892,632	Americas
94	Tonga	72.9 years	100,179	Oceania
95	Bhutan	73.0 years	784,043	Asia
96	Russia	73.3 years	146,028,325	Europe
97	Mauritius	73.4 years	1,243,741	Africa
98	Ukraine	73.4 years	32,862,000	Europe
99	Trinidad and Tobago	73.5 years	1,367,764	Americas
100	Belize	73.6 years	417,634	Americas
101	Suriname	73.6 years	616,500	Americas
102	North Korea	73.6 years	25,950,000	Asia
103	Dominican Republic	73.7 years	10,771,504	Americas
104	Paraguay	73.8 years	6,109,644	Americas
105	Belarus	74.2 years	9,109,280	Europe
106	Kazakhstan	74.4 years	20,426,568	Asia
107	Azerbaijan	74.4 years	10,241,722	Asia
108	Georgia	74.5 years	4,000,921	Asia
109	Bahamas	74.5 years	398,165	Americas
110	Vietnam	74.6 years	101,343,800	Asia
111	Bangladesh	74.7 years	169,828,911	Asia
112	Nicaragua	75.0 years	6,803,886	Americas
113	Seychelles	75.0 years	122,729	Africa
114	Mexico	75.1 years	130,575,786	Americas
115	Grenada	75.2 years	109,021	Americas
116	Morocco	75.3 years	36,828,330	Africa
117	North Macedonia	75.3 years	1,822,612	Europe
118	Brunei	75.3 years	455,500	Asia
119	Latvia	75.7 years	1,829,000	Europe
120	Bulgaria	75.7 years	6,437,360	Europe
121	Brazil	75.8 years	213,421,037	Americas
122	Cape Verde	76.1 years	491,233	Africa
123	Barbados	76.2 years	267,800	Americas
124	Serbia	76.2 years	6,567,783	Europe
125	Algeria	76.3 years	47,400,000	Africa
126	Aruba	76.3 years	107,566	Americas
127	Sint Maarten	76.4 years	41,349	Americas
128	Thailand	76.4 years	65,859,640	Asia
129	Tunisia	76.5 years	11,972,169	Africa
130	Romania	76.6 years	19,036,031	Europe
131	Malaysia	76.7 years	34,231,700	Asia
132	Hungary	76.8 years	9,539,502	Europe
133	Curaçao	76.8 years	156,115	Americas
134	Lithuania	77.0 years	2,894,886	Europe
135	Turkey	77.2 years	85,664,944	Asia
136	Guam	77.2 years	153,836	Oceania
137	British Virgin Islands	77.3 years	39,471	Americas
138	Ecuador	77.4 years	18,103,660	Americas
139	Argentina	77.4 years	46,735,004	Americas
140	Armenia	77.5 years	3,076,200	Asia
141	Sri Lanka	77.5 years	21,763,170	Asia
142	Montenegro	77.6 years	623,327	Europe
143	Antigua and Barbuda	77.6 years	103,603	Americas
144	Iran	77.7 years	85,961,000	Asia
145	Colombia	77.7 years	53,057,212	Americas
146	Peru	77.7 years	34,350,244	Americas
147	Jordan	77.8 years	11,734,000	Asia
148	Lebanon	77.8 years	5,490,000	Asia
149	Bosnia and Herzegovina	77.8 years	3,422,000	Europe
150	China	78.0 years	1,408,280,000	Asia
151	Turks and Caicos Islands	78.0 years	50,828	Americas
152	Slovakia	78.0 years	5,413,813	Europe
153	Kosovo	78.0 years	1,585,566	Europe
154	Cuba	78.1 years	9,748,007	Americas
155	Uruguay	78.1 years	3,499,451	Americas
156	United States	78.4 years	340,110,988	Americas
157	Croatia	78.5 years	3,866,233	Europe
158	Estonia	78.5 years	1,369,995	Europe
159	Poland	78.5 years	37,392,000	Europe
160	Saudi Arabia	78.7 years	35,300,280	Asia
161	New Caledonia	78.8 years	264,596	Oceania
162	Northern Mariana Islands	78.8 years	47,329	Oceania
163	Panama	79.6 years	4,064,780	Americas
164	Albania	79.6 years	2,363,314	Europe
165	Czechia	79.9 years	10,882,341	Europe
166	Oman	80.0 years	5,343,630	Asia
167	Saint Martin	80.2 years	31,496	Americas
168	Cayman Islands	80.4 years	84,738	Americas
169	United States Virgin Islands	80.5 years	87,146	Americas
170	Germany	80.5 years	83,491,249	Europe
171	Costa Rica	80.8 years	5,309,625	Americas
172	Isle of Man	81.0 years	84,530	Europe
173	Maldives	81.0 years	515,132	Asia
174	Chile	81.2 years	20,206,953	Americas
175	United Kingdom	81.2 years	69,281,437	Europe
176	Bahrain	81.3 years	1,594,654	Asia
177	Greece	81.5 years	10,400,720	Europe
178	Austria	81.5 years	9,200,931	Europe
179	Canada	81.7 years	41,651,653	Americas
180	Cyprus	81.7 years	1,442,614	Europe
181	Finland	81.7 years	5,650,325	Europe
182	Puerto Rico	81.7 years	3,203,295	Americas
183	Denmark	81.8 years	6,011,488	Europe
184	Netherlands	81.9 years	18,100,436	Europe
185	Slovenia	82.0 years	2,130,638	Europe
186	Portugal	82.3 years	10,749,635	Europe
187	Bermuda	82.3 years	64,055	Americas
188	Qatar	82.4 years	3,173,024	Asia
189	Belgium	82.4 years	11,825,551	Europe
190	Iceland	82.6 years	391,810	Europe
191	Ireland	82.9 years	5,458,600	Europe
192	Singapore	82.9 years	6,110,200	Asia
193	United Arab Emirates	82.9 years	11,294,243	Asia
194	France	82.9 years	66,351,959	Europe
195	New Zealand	83.0 years	5,324,700	Oceania
196	Australia	83.0 years	27,536,874	Oceania
197	Norway	83.1 years	5,606,944	Europe
198	Faroe Islands	83.1 years	54,885	Europe
199	Macau	83.2 years	685,900	Asia
200	Kuwait	83.2 years	4,881,254	Asia
201	Israel	83.2 years	10,134,800	Asia
202	Sweden	83.3 years	10,605,098	Europe
203	Luxembourg	83.4 years	681,973	Europe
204	South Korea	83.4 years	51,159,889	Asia
205	Malta	83.5 years	574,250	Europe
206	Gibraltar	83.5 years	38,000	Europe
207	Italy	83.7 years	58,927,633	Europe
208	Spain	83.9 years	49,315,949	Europe
209	Japan	84.0 years	123,210,000	Asia
210	Andorra	84.0 years	88,406	Europe
211	Switzerland	84.1 years	9,082,848	Europe
212	French Polynesia	84.1 years	279,500	Oceania
213	Liechtenstein	84.8 years	40,900	Europe
214	Hong Kong	85.3 years	7,527,500	Asia
215	San Marino	85.7 years	34,132	Europe
216	Monaco	86.4 years	38,423	Europe