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Life expectancy at birth, total · World Bank

73.0 +0.1 from 2016 Global rank: 117th

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's life expectancy was 73.0 in 2017, increased +0.1 from 73.0 in 2016. This was the 117th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2017▾

Life Expectancy by Country - 2017
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
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%

FAQ

What was Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's life expectancy in 2017?▾

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's life expectancy in 2017 was 73.0. This ranked 117th globally.

How did Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's life expectancy change in 2017?▾

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's life expectancy increased by 0.1% in 2017 compared to 2016.

Which country had the highest life expectancy in 2017?▾

Monaco had the highest life expectancy in 2017 at 85.9.

What is the life expectancy of Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of in 2017?▾

The life expectancy of Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of in 2017 was 73.0. This ranked 117th globally.

How does 2017 compare to 2016 for Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's life expectancy?▾

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's life expectancy went from 73.0 in 2016 to 73.0 in 2017, a 0.1% increase.

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