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Life expectancy at birth, total · World Bank

73.0 +0.1 from 2015 Global rank: 116th

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's life expectancy was 73.0 in 2016, increased +0.1 from 72.8 in 2015. This was the 116th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2016▾

Life Expectancy by Country - 2016
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Monaco	85.6	0.4%
2nd	San Marino	84.8	0.2%
3rd	Andorra	84.5	-0.1%
4th	Hong Kong SAR, China	84.2	0.0%
5th	Japan	84.0	0.2%
6th	Switzerland	83.6	0.9%
7th	Spain	83.3	0.6%
8th	Macao SAR, China	83.3	0.1%
9th	Italy	83.2	0.8%
10th	Singapore	82.8	0.1%
11th	Gibraltar	82.7	0.1%
12th	Luxembourg	82.7	0.5%
13th	France	82.6	0.3%
14th	French Polynesia	82.6	0.3%
15th	Malta	82.5	0.7%
16th	Australia	82.4	0.1%
17th	Israel	82.4	0.4%
18th	Norway	82.4	0.1%
19th	Sweden	82.3	0.1%
20th	Korea	82.3	0.3%
21st	Liechtenstein	82.3	-0.5%
22nd	Iceland	82.2	-0.3%
23rd	United Arab Emirates	82.2	0.1%
24th	Qatar	82.1	0.4%
25th	Faroe Islands	82.0	0.2%
26th	Canada	81.9	0.1%
27th	New Zealand	81.7	0.1%
28th	Ireland	81.7	0.2%
29th	Austria	81.6	0.6%
30th	Netherlands	81.6	0.1%
31st	Cyprus	81.5	0.1%
32nd	Belgium	81.4	0.6%
33rd	Finland	81.4	-0.1%
34th	Greece	81.4	0.4%
35th	Channel Islands	81.2	-0.2%
36th	Slovenia	81.2	0.5%
37th	United Kingdom	81.2	0.2%
38th	Portugal	81.1	0.0%
39th	Germany	81.0	0.4%
40th	European Union	81.0	0.5%
41st	Denmark	80.9	0.2%
42nd	Bermuda	80.5	0.2%
43rd	Bahrain	80.4	0.1%
44th	Isle of Man	80.4	0.2%
45th	Puerto Rico (US)	80.4	-0.4%
46th	Chile	80.3	0.4%
47th	Costa Rica	80.0	-0.5%
48th	St. Martin (French part)	79.9	0.1%
49th	Kuwait	79.7	0.4%
50th	Oman	79.6	0.3%
51st	Virgin Islands (US)	79.2	0.2%
52nd	Czechia	79.0	0.6%
53rd	Maldives	78.9	0.4%
54th	Albania	78.6	0.4%
55th	United States	78.5	-0.2%
56th	Cayman Islands	78.4	0.3%
57th	Saudi Arabia	78.4	0.7%
58th	Lebanon	78.3	0.0%
59th	Croatia	77.9	0.8%
60th	Poland	77.9	0.5%
61st	Panama	77.8	0.2%
62nd	Estonia	77.6	0.1%
63rd	Cuba	77.6	-0.2%
64th	Turks and Caicos Islands	77.4	0.2%
65th	Northern Mariana Islands	77.4	0.0%
66th	New Caledonia	77.4	0.2%
67th	Uruguay	77.4	0.1%
68th	China	77.2	0.3%
69th	Slovak Republic	77.2	0.8%
70th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	77.1	0.1%
71st	Antigua and Barbuda	77.0	0.1%
72nd	Thailand	76.8	0.3%
73rd	Kosovo	76.7	1.0%
74th	British Virgin Islands	76.6	0.1%
75th	Türkiye	76.6	0.1%
76th	Montenegro	76.5	-0.1%
77th	Guam	76.4	0.0%
78th	Curaçao	76.3	-0.2%
79th	Colombia	76.2	0.2%
80th	Barbados	76.2	0.1%
81st	Iran, Islamic Republic of	76.2	0.3%
82nd	Sri Lanka	76.1	0.2%
83rd	Argentina	76.1	-0.6%
84th	Ecuador	76.1	-0.2%
85th	Hungary	76.1	0.7%
86th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	76.0	0.1%
87th	Peru	76.0	0.3%
88th	Serbia	75.7	0.5%
89th	Jordan	75.6	0.7%
90th	Aruba	75.5	0.2%
91st	North Macedonia	75.4	0.0%
92nd	Malaysia	75.4	0.1%
93rd	Algeria	75.3	0.2%
94th	Romania	75.2	0.4%
95th	Brazil	75.1	0.0%
96th	Grenada	75.0	0.0%
97th	Tunisia	75.0	0.2%
98th	West Bank and Gaza	74.9	0.5%
99th	Brunei Darussalam	74.9	0.0%
100th	Armenia	74.9	0.0%
101st	Bulgaria	74.8	0.3%
102nd	Lithuania	74.7	0.5%
103rd	Latvia	74.6	0.1%
104th	Mauritius	74.4	0.1%
105th	Mexico	74.4	-0.1%
106th	Cabo Verde	74.4	0.3%
107th	Seychelles	74.3	0.0%
108th	Bahamas, The	74.0	0.3%
109th	Viet Nam	74.0	0.0%
110th	Belarus	73.8	0.3%
111th	Paraguay	73.5	0.0%
112th	Ukraine	73.4	1.0%
113th	Morocco	73.2	0.5%
114th	Nicaragua	73.2	0.4%
115th	Georgia	73.1	-0.1%
116th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	73.0	0.2%
117th	Trinidad and Tobago	72.9	0.1%
118th	Dominican Republic	72.9	-0.1%
119th	American Samoa	72.6	0.0%
120th	Azerbaijan	72.6	0.3%
121st	St. Lucia	72.6	-0.5%
122nd	Kazakhstan	72.5	0.7%
123rd	Jamaica	72.1	-0.2%
124th	Tonga	72.0	0.1%
125th	Belize	71.8	0.3%
126th	Greenland	71.8	0.5%
127th	Libya	71.8	0.2%
128th	Russian Federation	71.7	0.7%
129th	Honduras	71.6	0.4%
130th	Uzbekistan	71.6	0.4%
131st	St. Kitts and Nevis	71.2	0.0%
132nd	Guatemala	71.2	0.4%
133rd	Dominica	71.2	1.7%
134th	Bhutan	71.1	0.5%
135th	Bangladesh	71.1	0.8%
136th	Samoa	71.0	-0.1%
137th	Suriname	71.0	0.6%
138th	Kyrgyz Republic	71.0	0.4%
139th	El Salvador	70.9	-0.1%
140th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	70.7	0.3%
141st	Egypt, Arab Republic of	70.4	0.4%
142nd	Vanuatu	70.4	0.3%
143rd	Mongolia	70.2	-0.8%
144th	Moldova	70.2	0.1%
145th	Tajikistan	70.0	0.5%
146th	Indonesia	69.7	0.3%
147th	India	69.7	0.6%
148th	Cambodia	69.6	0.3%
149th	Solomon Islands	69.5	0.3%
150th	Philippines	69.5	0.1%
151st	Turkmenistan	69.1	0.1%
152nd	Palau	69.0	0.0%
153rd	Iraq	68.7	-1.8%
154th	Nepal	68.4	1.6%
155th	Guyana	68.1	0.5%
156th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	67.4	0.3%
157th	Yemen, Republic of	67.1	0.5%
158th	Lao PDR	67.0	0.5%
159th	Mauritania	66.8	0.5%
160th	Senegal	66.7	0.4%
161st	Fiji	66.7	0.3%
162nd	Gabon	66.6	0.4%
163rd	São Tomé and Principe	66.6	0.8%
164th	Eritrea	66.2	0.5%
165th	Pakistan	65.9	0.5%
166th	Kiribati	65.8	0.0%
167th	Rwanda	65.7	0.5%
168th	Myanmar	65.6	0.5%
169th	Timor-Leste	65.6	0.4%
170th	Micronesia, Federated States of	65.6	0.4%
171st	Tuvalu	65.5	0.2%
172nd	Marshall Islands	65.5	0.3%
173rd	Syrian Arab Republic	65.2	3.0%
174th	Comoros	64.8	0.5%
175th	South Africa	64.7	1.1%
176th	Papua New Guinea	64.7	0.4%
177th	Sudan	64.7	0.5%
178th	Uganda	64.5	1.0%
179th	Tanzania	64.4	0.7%
180th	Botswana	64.3	1.7%
181st	Congo, Republic of	63.9	0.4%
182nd	Ghana	63.5	0.5%
183rd	Madagascar	63.4	0.1%
184th	Gambia, The	63.4	0.7%
185th	Djibouti	63.3	0.8%
186th	Haiti	63.3	0.2%
187th	Malawi	63.2	1.3%
188th	Afghanistan	62.6	0.6%
189th	Kenya	62.5	0.4%
190th	Angola	61.6	0.9%
191st	Zambia	61.1	0.7%
192nd	Equatorial Guinea	61.1	0.7%
193rd	Nauru	61.0	0.2%
194th	Namibia	60.8	1.3%
195th	Burundi	60.8	1.1%
196th	Guinea-Bissau	60.6	0.9%
197th	Liberia	60.5	2.1%
198th	Cameroon	60.3	1.0%
199th	Zimbabwe	59.8	1.3%
200th	Togo	59.7	0.8%
201st	Mozambique	59.5	1.3%
202nd	Benin	59.3	0.3%
203rd	Niger	59.2	0.6%
204th	Burkina Faso	59.2	0.7%
205th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	59.1	0.7%
206th	Côte d'Ivoire	58.8	0.9%
207th	Guinea	58.5	1.0%
208th	Mali	58.3	0.8%
209th	Sierra Leone	56.9	2.7%
210th	Eswatini	56.2	2.3%
211th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	55.3	0.4%
212th	Lesotho	52.9	2.1%
213th	Nigeria	52.2	0.5%
214th	Chad	51.6	0.6%
215th	Central African Republic	51.0	-1.8%
216th	South Sudan	36.7	-7.6%

FAQ

What was Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's life expectancy in 2016?▾

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's life expectancy in 2016 was 73.0. This ranked 116th globally.

How did Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's life expectancy change in 2016?▾

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's life expectancy increased by 0.2% in 2016 compared to 2015.

Which country had the highest life expectancy in 2016?▾

Monaco had the highest life expectancy in 2016 at 85.6.

What is the life expectancy of Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of in 2016?▾

The life expectancy of Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of in 2016 was 73.0. This ranked 116th globally.

How does 2016 compare to 2015 for Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's life expectancy?▾

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's life expectancy went from 72.8 in 2015 to 73.0 in 2016, a 0.2% increase.

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