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China – Life Expectancy 2017

Average number of years a newborn is expected to live if current mortality rates continue throughout their lifetime. · World Bank
77.2 +0.0 from 2016 G20 rank: 69th

China's life expectancy was 77.2 in 2017, increased +0.0 from 77.2 in 2016. This was the 69th highest in the G20.

G20 Ranking – 2017▾
RankCountryValueYoY
1st Monaco 85.9 0.3%
2nd San Marino 84.9 0.2%
3rd Hong Kong SAR, China 84.7 0.6%
4th Andorra 84.4 -0.2%
5th Japan 84.1 0.1%
6th Liechtenstein 83.7 1.8%
7th Switzerland 83.6 -0.1%
8th Macao SAR, China 83.5 0.3%
9th Spain 83.3 -0.1%
10th Singapore 83.1 0.3%
11th Italy 82.9 -0.4%
12th Gibraltar 82.9 0.1%
13th French Polynesia 82.8 0.3%
14th Iceland 82.7 0.6%
15th Korea 82.6 0.4%
16th Norway 82.6 0.2%
17th France 82.6 0.0%
18th Israel 82.6 0.2%
19th Australia 82.5 0.1%
20th Qatar 82.5 0.4%
21st Sweden 82.4 0.1%
22nd United Arab Emirates 82.4 0.2%
23rd Malta 82.3 -0.1%
24th Ireland 82.2 0.6%
25th Faroe Islands 82.1 0.2%
26th Luxembourg 82.1 -0.7%
27th New Zealand 81.9 0.2%
28th Canada 81.8 -0.2%
29th Netherlands 81.8 0.2%
30th Austria 81.6 0.0%
31st Finland 81.6 0.2%
32nd Cyprus 81.5 0.0%
33rd Belgium 81.5 0.1%
34th Portugal 81.4 0.4%
35th Greece 81.3 -0.1%
36th United Kingdom 81.3 0.1%
37th Denmark 81.1 0.3%
38th Slovenia 81.0 -0.2%
39th Channel Islands 81.0 -0.2%
40th Germany 81.0 0.0%
41st European Union 80.9 0.0%
42nd Bermuda 80.7 0.3%
43rd Chile 80.6 0.4%
44th Isle of Man 80.5 0.1%
45th Bahrain 80.4 0.0%
46th Costa Rica 80.0 0.0%
47th Kuwait 79.9 0.3%
48th Oman 79.7 0.2%
49th Virgin Islands (US) 79.4 0.3%
50th Maldives 79.2 0.4%
51st Puerto Rico (US) 79.1 -1.6%
52nd Czechia 79.0 -0.1%
53rd Albania 78.9 0.3%
54th St. Martin (French part) 78.8 -1.4%
55th Saudi Arabia 78.7 0.5%
56th Cayman Islands 78.6 0.3%
57th United States 78.5 0.0%
58th Lebanon 78.2 -0.1%
59th Estonia 78.1 0.6%
60th Panama 77.9 0.2%
61st Poland 77.8 -0.1%
62nd Croatia 77.7 -0.3%
63rd Uruguay 77.6 0.3%
64th Turks and Caicos Islands 77.5 0.1%
65th New Caledonia 77.5 0.2%
66th Northern Mariana Islands 77.5 0.1%
67th Bosnia and Herzegovina 77.4 0.3%
68th Cuba 77.3 -0.3%
69th China 77.2 0.0%
70th Slovak Republic 77.2 0.0%
71st Kosovo 77.1 0.5%
72nd Türkiye 77.0 0.6%
73rd Antigua and Barbuda 77.0 0.1%
74th Thailand 77.0 0.3%
75th Montenegro 76.7 0.2%
76th Argentina 76.5 0.6%
77th Guam 76.5 0.0%
78th Curaçao 76.4 0.1%
79th Colombia 76.4 0.2%
80th Iran, Islamic Republic of 76.4 0.3%
81st Sri Lanka 76.2 0.1%
82nd Barbados 76.2 0.1%
83rd Ecuador 76.2 0.2%
84th Jordan 76.1 0.7%
85th Peru 76.0 0.0%
86th North Macedonia 76.0 0.7%
87th Hungary 75.8 -0.3%
88th British Virgin Islands 75.7 -1.2%
89th Aruba 75.6 0.1%
90th Malaysia 75.5 0.2%
91st Serbia 75.5 -0.2%
92nd Lithuania 75.5 1.1%
93rd Sint Maarten (Dutch part) 75.5 -0.7%
94th Algeria 75.4 0.2%
95th Brazil 75.4 0.4%
96th Armenia 75.2 0.5%
97th West Bank and Gaza 75.2 0.4%
98th Romania 75.2 0.0%
99th Tunisia 75.2 0.2%
100th Grenada 75.0 0.0%
101st Brunei Darussalam 74.9 0.1%
102nd Bulgaria 74.8 0.0%
103rd Cabo Verde 74.7 0.5%
104th Latvia 74.6 0.1%
105th Mauritius 74.5 0.2%
106th Seychelles 74.3 0.0%
107th Mexico 74.3 -0.2%
108th Belarus 74.1 0.4%
109th Bahamas, The 74.0 0.0%
110th Viet Nam 74.0 0.1%
111th Ukraine 74.0 0.8%
112th Morocco 73.6 0.5%
113th Paraguay 73.5 -0.1%
114th Georgia 73.4 0.4%
115th Nicaragua 73.4 0.3%
116th Dominican Republic 73.4 0.7%
117th Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of 73.0 0.1%
118th Kazakhstan 73.0 0.6%
119th Trinidad and Tobago 73.0 0.1%
120th American Samoa 72.8 0.2%
121st Libya 72.7 1.3%
122nd Azerbaijan 72.7 0.2%
123rd St. Lucia 72.5 0.0%
124th Russian Federation 72.5 1.1%
125th Tonga 72.1 0.2%
126th Belize 72.1 0.3%
127th Greenland 71.9 0.1%
128th Jamaica 71.9 -0.2%
129th Honduras 71.8 0.3%
130th Uzbekistan 71.7 0.2%
131st Bangladesh 71.6 0.7%
132nd Guatemala 71.6 0.5%
133rd Bhutan 71.4 0.4%
134th St. Kitts and Nevis 71.3 0.1%
135th Suriname 71.2 0.4%
136th Kyrgyz Republic 71.2 0.4%
137th St. Vincent and the Grenadines 71.0 0.4%
138th El Salvador 71.0 0.1%
139th Samoa 71.0 0.0%
140th Egypt, Arab Republic of 70.7 0.4%
141st Mongolia 70.5 0.5%
142nd Tajikistan 70.5 0.8%
143rd Vanuatu 70.5 0.1%
144th Moldova 70.4 0.3%
145th India 70.1 0.5%
146th Philippines 70.0 0.7%
147th Indonesia 70.0 0.3%
148th Cambodia 69.8 0.3%
149th Iraq 69.8 1.6%
150th Solomon Islands 69.7 0.2%
151st Turkmenistan 69.2 0.1%
152nd Palau 69.0 0.0%
153rd Nepal 68.7 0.4%
154th Dominica 68.6 -3.6%
155th Guyana 68.5 0.7%
156th Bolivia, Plurinational State of 67.5 0.2%
157th Lao PDR 67.3 0.5%
158th Yemen, Republic of 67.1 0.0%
159th Mauritania 67.1 0.4%
160th São Tomé and Principe 67.1 0.8%
161st Fiji 67.1 0.6%
162nd Senegal 67.1 0.5%
163rd Gabon 66.8 0.3%
164th Eritrea 66.6 0.6%
165th Pakistan 66.2 0.4%
166th Rwanda 66.1 0.6%
167th Myanmar 65.9 0.4%
168th Timor-Leste 65.9 0.4%
169th Kiribati 65.8 0.0%
170th Micronesia, Federated States of 65.8 0.3%
171st Tuvalu 65.7 0.3%
172nd Marshall Islands 65.7 0.3%
173rd Syrian Arab Republic 65.7 0.7%
174th South Africa 65.4 1.0%
175th Botswana 65.4 1.7%
176th Uganda 65.2 1.1%
177th Sudan 65.1 0.7%
178th Comoros 65.1 0.5%
179th Tanzania 65.0 0.9%
180th Papua New Guinea 64.9 0.3%
181st Congo, Republic of 64.2 0.5%
182nd Malawi 63.9 1.2%
183rd Haiti 63.8 0.8%
184th Ghana 63.8 0.5%
185th Djibouti 63.7 0.6%
186th Gambia, The 63.7 0.5%
187th Madagascar 63.4 0.0%
188th Kenya 62.7 0.3%
189th Afghanistan 62.4 -0.4%
190th Angola 62.1 0.8%
191st Namibia 61.7 1.4%
192nd Zambia 61.6 0.7%
193rd Equatorial Guinea 61.5 0.7%
194th Burundi 61.3 0.9%
195th Guinea-Bissau 61.1 0.9%
196th Nauru 61.1 0.2%
197th Cameroon 60.8 0.9%
198th Liberia 60.8 0.5%
199th Zimbabwe 60.3 0.8%
200th Mozambique 60.1 1.2%
201st Togo 60.1 0.8%
202nd Burkina Faso 59.6 0.7%
203rd Benin 59.5 0.4%
204th Niger 59.5 0.5%
205th Congo, Democratic Republic of 59.5 0.7%
206th Côte d'Ivoire 59.3 0.9%
207th Guinea 58.7 0.4%
208th Mali 58.6 0.5%
209th Sierra Leone 57.8 1.4%
210th Eswatini 57.6 2.4%
211th Lesotho 53.9 1.8%
212th Nigeria 52.4 0.4%
213th Somalia, Fed. Rep. 52.2 -5.6%
214th Chad 51.9 0.5%
215th Central African Republic 45.2 -11.3%
216th South Sudan 35.4 -3.7%
Source: World Bank (SP.DYN.LE00.IN)
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