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Ghana - Life Expectancy 2013

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Life expectancy at birth, total · World Bank

62.4 +0.4 from 2012 Global rank: 181st

Ghana's life expectancy was 62.4 in 2013, increased +0.4 from 62.0 in 2012. This was the 181st highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2013▾

Life Expectancy by Country - 2013
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Monaco	85.1	0.0%
2nd	Andorra	84.4	0.1%
3rd	San Marino	84.2	0.3%
4th	Hong Kong SAR, China	83.8	0.5%
5th	Japan	83.3	0.3%
6th	Spain	83.1	0.8%
7th	Switzerland	82.8	0.1%
8th	Macao SAR, China	82.7	0.3%
9th	Italy	82.7	0.5%
10th	Gibraltar	82.6	0.1%
11th	Liechtenstein	82.3	-0.1%
12th	Singapore	82.2	0.3%
13th	France	82.2	0.3%
14th	Australia	82.1	0.1%
15th	Iceland	82.1	-1.0%
16th	Israel	82.1	0.4%
17th	Sweden	82.0	0.3%
18th	United Arab Emirates	82.0	0.0%
19th	French Polynesia	81.9	0.3%
20th	Luxembourg	81.8	0.5%
21st	Norway	81.8	0.4%
22nd	Malta	81.7	1.2%
23rd	Canada	81.7	0.1%
24th	Channel Islands	81.5	0.2%
25th	New Zealand	81.4	0.0%
26th	Faroe Islands	81.3	0.3%
27th	Cyprus	81.3	0.2%
28th	Netherlands	81.3	0.2%
29th	Greece	81.3	0.8%
30th	Korea	81.3	0.6%
31st	Austria	81.1	0.2%
32nd	United Kingdom	81.0	0.1%
33rd	Finland	81.0	0.4%
34th	Qatar	81.0	0.6%
35th	Ireland	80.9	0.1%
36th	Portugal	80.7	0.4%
37th	Belgium	80.6	0.3%
38th	Germany	80.5	-0.1%
39th	European Union	80.5	0.4%
40th	Slovenia	80.3	0.2%
41st	Puerto Rico (US)	80.3	1.3%
42nd	Denmark	80.3	0.3%
43rd	Costa Rica	80.2	0.3%
44th	Isle of Man	80.1	0.1%
45th	Bermuda	80.0	0.2%
46th	Bahrain	80.0	0.5%
47th	Chile	79.6	0.4%
48th	St. Martin (French part)	79.5	0.3%
49th	Kuwait	78.7	0.4%
50th	United States	78.7	0.0%
51st	Virgin Islands (US)	78.7	0.3%
52nd	Oman	78.6	0.6%
53rd	Czechia	78.2	0.1%
54th	Lebanon	78.0	0.1%
55th	Cuba	78.0	-0.2%
56th	Albania	78.0	-0.1%
57th	Maldives	77.8	0.4%
58th	Cayman Islands	77.7	0.7%
59th	Croatia	77.6	0.5%
60th	Northern Mariana Islands	77.5	-0.1%
61st	Estonia	77.1	1.1%
62nd	Bosnia and Herzegovina	77.1	0.1%
63rd	Panama	77.1	0.3%
64th	Turks and Caicos Islands	77.1	0.2%
65th	Antigua and Barbuda	77.1	-0.1%
66th	Poland	77.0	0.3%
67th	Uruguay	77.0	0.3%
68th	New Caledonia	76.9	0.3%
69th	Saudi Arabia	76.5	0.6%
70th	Montenegro	76.5	0.2%
71st	British Virgin Islands	76.5	0.1%
72nd	China	76.5	0.3%
73rd	Slovak Republic	76.4	0.4%
74th	Guam	76.4	0.2%
75th	Kosovo	76.3	0.8%
76th	Curaçao	76.2	0.4%
77th	Türkiye	76.2	0.8%
78th	Thailand	76.0	0.5%
79th	Colombia	75.8	0.3%
80th	Ecuador	75.8	0.5%
81st	Argentina	75.8	0.0%
82nd	Barbados	75.8	0.1%
83rd	Hungary	75.6	0.7%
84th	Sri Lanka	75.5	0.5%
85th	Malaysia	75.5	-0.1%
86th	North Macedonia	75.4	0.7%
87th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	75.4	0.4%
88th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	75.3	0.4%
89th	Serbia	75.2	0.5%
90th	Aruba	75.1	0.3%
91st	Romania	75.1	0.9%
92nd	Grenada	75.0	0.1%
93rd	Bulgaria	74.9	0.7%
94th	Brunei Darussalam	74.9	0.0%
95th	Algeria	74.8	0.3%
96th	Tunisia	74.7	0.1%
97th	Armenia	74.6	0.7%
98th	Brazil	74.6	0.4%
99th	Peru	74.6	0.8%
100th	Mexico	74.3	0.2%
101st	Jordan	74.3	0.3%
102nd	West Bank and Gaza	74.1	0.6%
103rd	Mauritius	74.0	0.2%
104th	Latvia	74.0	0.3%
105th	Bahamas, The	73.9	0.3%
106th	Lithuania	73.9	0.1%
107th	Viet Nam	73.8	0.1%
108th	Cabo Verde	73.5	0.2%
109th	Paraguay	73.3	0.3%
110th	Seychelles	73.1	-1.6%
111th	Dominican Republic	73.0	0.3%
112th	Georgia	73.0	0.5%
113th	Trinidad and Tobago	72.8	0.4%
114th	American Samoa	72.8	0.1%
115th	St. Lucia	72.7	-0.2%
116th	Nicaragua	72.6	0.2%
117th	Belarus	72.5	0.7%
118th	Jamaica	72.4	0.0%
119th	Libya	72.3	0.2%
120th	Morocco	72.1	0.6%
121st	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	71.9	0.8%
122nd	Tonga	71.7	0.1%
123rd	Azerbaijan	71.5	0.6%
124th	Ukraine	71.5	0.5%
125th	St. Kitts and Nevis	71.3	-0.1%
126th	Belize	71.3	0.2%
127th	Samoa	71.2	0.1%
128th	Dominica	71.2	-0.2%
129th	El Salvador	71.2	-0.3%
130th	Guatemala	70.9	0.2%
131st	Greenland	70.8	0.4%
132nd	Honduras	70.8	0.4%
133rd	Kazakhstan	70.7	1.1%
134th	Uzbekistan	70.7	0.4%
135th	Russian Federation	70.6	0.7%
136th	Moldova	70.3	-0.1%
137th	Kyrgyz Republic	70.2	0.3%
138th	Bhutan	70.2	0.6%
139th	Suriname	70.1	0.2%
140th	Mongolia	70.1	0.9%
141st	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	70.1	-0.6%
142nd	Vanuatu	70.0	0.1%
143rd	Egypt, Arab Republic of	69.6	0.2%
144th	Tajikistan	69.6	0.6%
145th	Bangladesh	69.5	0.7%
146th	Philippines	69.3	0.1%
147th	Indonesia	69.1	0.3%
148th	Iraq	69.0	0.3%
149th	Solomon Islands	69.0	0.1%
150th	Palau	69.0	0.2%
151st	Turkmenistan	69.0	0.0%
152nd	Cambodia	68.8	0.6%
153rd	India	68.5	0.6%
154th	Yemen, Republic of	68.0	0.6%
155th	Nepal	67.6	0.3%
156th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	66.8	0.3%
157th	Guyana	66.7	0.4%
158th	Fiji	66.5	1.1%
159th	Kiribati	65.9	0.0%
160th	Mauritania	65.9	0.1%
161st	Gabon	65.8	0.5%
162nd	Lao PDR	65.7	0.9%
163rd	Senegal	65.6	0.6%
164th	Micronesia, Federated States of	65.2	0.2%
165th	Tuvalu	65.2	0.1%
166th	Syrian Arab Republic	65.1	-1.6%
167th	Pakistan	65.1	0.4%
168th	Eritrea	65.0	0.5%
169th	Marshall Islands	65.0	0.3%
170th	São Tomé and Principe	64.9	0.7%
171st	Timor-Leste	64.7	0.5%
172nd	Rwanda	64.7	0.7%
173rd	Myanmar	64.6	0.6%
174th	Papua New Guinea	63.9	0.5%
175th	Comoros	63.8	0.6%
176th	Sudan	63.4	0.0%
177th	Madagascar	63.2	0.2%
178th	Congo, Republic of	63.0	0.5%
179th	Tanzania	62.8	0.8%
180th	Haiti	62.6	0.6%
181st	Ghana	62.4	0.6%
182nd	South Africa	62.4	1.1%
183rd	Uganda	62.4	1.3%
184th	Gambia, The	62.3	0.6%
185th	Afghanistan	62.2	0.7%
186th	Djibouti	62.1	0.6%
187th	Kenya	61.7	0.3%
188th	Botswana	61.2	1.4%
189th	Malawi	60.8	1.6%
190th	Nauru	60.7	0.3%
191st	Liberia	60.0	0.3%
192nd	Equatorial Guinea	59.8	0.8%
193rd	Angola	59.7	1.3%
194th	Zambia	59.4	1.3%
195th	Burundi	59.2	1.2%
196th	Guinea-Bissau	58.9	1.0%
197th	Benin	58.9	0.5%
198th	Cameroon	58.7	1.0%
199th	Namibia	58.5	1.3%
200th	Niger	58.4	0.7%
201st	Togo	58.3	0.7%
202nd	South Sudan	58.3	0.1%
203rd	Burkina Faso	57.9	0.8%
204th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	57.8	0.8%
205th	Guinea	57.5	0.6%
206th	Mozambique	57.2	1.3%
207th	Côte d'Ivoire	57.1	0.9%
208th	Mali	57.1	0.6%
209th	Zimbabwe	56.8	2.6%
210th	Sierra Leone	54.1	1.7%
211th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	54.0	9.9%
212th	Eswatini	52.1	2.8%
213th	Nigeria	51.8	0.3%
214th	Chad	51.1	0.6%
215th	Lesotho	49.5	2.7%
216th	Central African Republic	49.5	-3.6%

FAQ

What was Ghana's life expectancy in 2013?▾

Ghana's life expectancy in 2013 was 62.4. This ranked 181st globally.

How did Ghana's life expectancy change in 2013?▾

Ghana's life expectancy increased by 0.6% in 2013 compared to 2012.

Which country had the highest life expectancy in 2013?▾

Monaco had the highest life expectancy in 2013 at 85.1.

What is the life expectancy of Ghana in 2013?▾

The life expectancy of Ghana in 2013 was 62.4. This ranked 181st globally.

How does 2013 compare to 2012 for Ghana's life expectancy?▾

Ghana's life expectancy went from 62.0 in 2012 to 62.4 in 2013, a 0.6% increase.

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