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Life expectancy at birth, total · World Bank

72.8 −0.1 from 2019 Global rank: 111th

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's life expectancy was 72.8 in 2020, decreased +0.1 from 72.9 in 2019. This was the 111th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2020▾

Life Expectancy by Country - 2020
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Monaco	86.1	-0.1%
2nd	Hong Kong SAR, China	85.5	0.4%
3rd	Japan	84.6	0.2%
4th	Macao SAR, China	84.1	0.2%
5th	Singapore	83.5	-0.1%
6th	Korea	83.4	0.2%
7th	Norway	83.2	0.3%
8th	Australia	83.2	0.4%
9th	Gibraltar	83.1	-0.1%
10th	Iceland	83.1	-0.1%
11th	Switzerland	83.0	-1.1%
12th	San Marino	82.7	-3.1%
13th	Israel	82.6	-0.2%
14th	Faroe Islands	82.6	0.2%
15th	French Polynesia	82.5	-0.9%
16th	Ireland	82.5	-0.3%
17th	Sweden	82.4	-0.9%
18th	New Zealand	82.3	0.2%
19th	Spain	82.2	-1.9%
20th	Italy	82.2	-1.6%
21st	France	82.2	-0.8%
22nd	Luxembourg	82.1	-0.6%
23rd	Malta	82.1	-0.7%
24th	United Arab Emirates	81.9	-0.8%
25th	Finland	81.9	-0.1%
26th	Liechtenstein	81.7	-3.0%
27th	Denmark	81.6	0.2%
28th	Canada	81.5	-0.8%
29th	Bermuda	81.5	0.3%
30th	Netherlands	81.4	-0.9%
31st	Portugal	81.3	-0.4%
32nd	Greece	81.3	-0.4%
33rd	Cyprus	81.2	-0.3%
34th	Austria	81.2	-0.9%
35th	Germany	81.0	-0.3%
36th	Channel Islands	80.9	-0.4%
37th	Belgium	80.7	-1.6%
38th	Isle of Man	80.6	-0.2%
39th	Slovenia	80.5	-1.2%
40th	European Union	80.4	-1.1%
41st	Qatar	80.4	-3.1%
42nd	United Kingdom	80.3	-1.3%
43rd	St. Martin (French part)	80.1	0.0%
44th	Puerto Rico (US)	80.0	-1.8%
45th	Virgin Islands (US)	79.8	0.2%
46th	Costa Rica	79.7	-0.7%
47th	Andorra	79.4	-5.6%
48th	Chile	79.3	-1.2%
49th	Cayman Islands	79.2	0.2%
50th	Kuwait	78.8	-3.9%
51st	Maldives	78.7	-1.2%
52nd	Bahrain	78.7	-2.2%
53rd	Estonia	78.6	-0.1%
54th	Uruguay	78.4	1.1%
55th	Czechia	78.2	-1.3%
56th	Northern Mariana Islands	78.0	0.2%
57th	China	78.0	0.1%
58th	Albania	77.8	-2.1%
59th	Oman	77.8	-2.7%
60th	Saudi Arabia	77.6	-0.9%
61st	Croatia	77.5	-0.9%
62nd	Turks and Caicos Islands	77.5	-0.2%
63rd	Cuba	77.4	0.0%
64th	Thailand	77.3	0.2%
65th	Seychelles	77.2	4.3%
66th	Antigua and Barbuda	77.2	0.0%
67th	New Caledonia	77.0	-0.3%
68th	United States	77.0	-2.3%
69th	Sri Lanka	76.9	0.3%
70th	British Virgin Islands	76.9	0.1%
71st	Slovak Republic	76.9	-1.0%
72nd	Barbados	76.6	0.2%
73rd	Türkiye	76.5	-1.6%
74th	Curaçao	76.5	0.0%
75th	Poland	76.4	-1.9%
76th	Panama	76.3	-2.8%
77th	Lebanon	76.3	-2.4%
78th	Malaysia	76.1	0.2%
79th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	76.0	-1.7%
80th	Montenegro	75.9	-1.0%
81st	Argentina	75.9	-1.3%
82nd	Jordan	75.6	-1.7%
83rd	Guam	75.5	-1.5%
84th	Hungary	75.4	-1.2%
85th	Aruba	75.4	-0.8%
86th	Viet Nam	75.4	1.6%
87th	Latvia	75.2	-0.3%
88th	Brunei Darussalam	75.1	0.1%
89th	Lithuania	75.0	-1.6%
90th	Grenada	75.0	0.1%
91st	Tunisia	75.0	-0.8%
92nd	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	75.0	-0.9%
93rd	West Bank and Gaza	75.0	-1.1%
94th	Colombia	74.8	-2.7%
95th	Brazil	74.5	-1.7%
96th	Serbia	74.5	-1.9%
97th	North Macedonia	74.4	-2.9%
98th	Romania	74.3	-1.8%
99th	Kosovo	74.2	-3.9%
100th	Mauritius	74.2	-0.1%
101st	Iran, Islamic Republic of	74.1	-3.5%
102nd	Peru	73.8	-3.2%
103rd	Cabo Verde	73.8	-2.2%
104th	Georgia	73.5	-0.9%
105th	Armenia	73.4	-3.7%
106th	Bulgaria	73.4	-2.3%
107th	Ukraine	73.3	-0.9%
108th	Algeria	73.3	-3.2%
109th	Morocco	73.1	-1.5%
110th	Bahamas, The	73.0	2.2%
111th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	72.8	-0.2%
112th	Paraguay	72.7	-1.3%
113th	American Samoa	72.7	-0.1%
114th	Trinidad and Tobago	72.6	-0.3%
115th	Dominican Republic	72.6	-0.7%
116th	Libya	72.4	-0.8%
117th	Tonga	72.4	0.1%
118th	Suriname	72.3	0.8%
119th	St. Lucia	72.3	0.1%
120th	Bhutan	72.3	0.3%
121st	Belarus	72.1	-2.8%
122nd	Ecuador	72.0	-6.8%
123rd	Syrian Arab Republic	71.9	1.4%
124th	Greenland	71.9	-0.1%
125th	Kyrgyz Republic	71.8	0.3%
126th	Belize	71.6	-1.4%
127th	Uzbekistan	71.5	-0.9%
128th	Jamaica	71.5	-0.1%
129th	Bangladesh	71.4	-1.7%
130th	Mongolia	71.3	0.4%
131st	Russian Federation	71.3	-2.4%
132nd	Dominica	71.3	-0.1%
133rd	Kazakhstan	71.2	-3.3%
134th	St. Kitts and Nevis	71.2	-0.5%
135th	Honduras	70.9	-1.7%
136th	Nicaragua	70.8	-4.1%
137th	Samoa	70.7	0.7%
138th	Mexico	70.4	-5.5%
139th	Vanuatu	70.4	-0.6%
140th	Azerbaijan	70.3	-4.1%
141st	El Salvador	70.2	-2.1%
142nd	India	70.2	-0.8%
143rd	Philippines	70.1	0.6%
144th	Cambodia	70.1	-0.1%
145th	Guatemala	70.0	-2.3%
146th	Moldova	69.9	-0.4%
147th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	69.8	-2.0%
148th	Iraq	69.7	-2.2%
149th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	69.6	-2.0%
150th	Solomon Islands	69.3	-1.0%
151st	Nepal	69.1	-0.3%
152nd	Turkmenistan	68.8	-0.8%
153rd	Indonesia	68.8	-2.2%
154th	Palau	68.7	-0.4%
155th	Tajikistan	68.6	-3.3%
156th	Lao PDR	68.3	0.6%
157th	São Tomé and Principe	68.0	-0.1%
158th	Guyana	67.8	-1.9%
159th	Botswana	67.6	0.7%
160th	Senegal	67.5	-0.3%
161st	Gabon	67.1	-0.4%
162nd	Eritrea	67.0	-0.5%
163rd	Rwanda	67.0	0.4%
164th	Fiji	66.9	-0.1%
165th	Timor-Leste	66.9	0.6%
166th	Mauritania	66.8	-1.3%
167th	Tanzania	66.8	1.2%
168th	Myanmar	66.6	0.2%
169th	Yemen, Republic of	66.4	-0.2%
170th	Uganda	66.4	0.1%
171st	Tuvalu	66.4	0.4%
172nd	Micronesia, Federated States of	65.9	-0.5%
173rd	Comoros	65.8	0.1%
174th	Pakistan	65.7	-1.5%
175th	Marshall Islands	65.4	-1.0%
176th	Malawi	65.2	0.3%
177th	Kiribati	65.2	-1.0%
178th	South Africa	65.2	-1.4%
179th	Sudan	65.1	-1.0%
180th	Papua New Guinea	65.1	-0.4%
181st	Gambia, The	64.4	0.0%
182nd	Congo, Republic of	64.4	2.0%
183rd	Ghana	64.3	-0.2%
184th	Djibouti	64.2	-0.3%
185th	Namibia	64.1	0.8%
186th	Haiti	63.8	-0.9%
187th	Zambia	63.4	0.7%
188th	Angola	63.1	0.1%
189th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	62.9	-7.2%
190th	Madagascar	62.7	-1.3%
191st	Burundi	62.6	0.6%
192nd	Equatorial Guinea	62.1	-0.3%
193rd	Cameroon	61.7	0.0%
194th	Kenya	61.6	-2.1%
195th	Zimbabwe	61.5	0.8%
196th	Nauru	61.5	0.2%
197th	Afghanistan	61.5	-2.4%
198th	Mozambique	61.4	0.1%
199th	Guinea-Bissau	61.3	-1.3%
200th	Liberia	61.3	0.1%
201st	Togo	61.1	0.1%
202nd	Burkina Faso	60.5	0.4%
203rd	Congo, Democratic Republic of	60.4	0.3%
204th	Benin	60.2	0.4%
205th	Côte d'Ivoire	60.1	-0.2%
206th	Niger	59.9	-0.2%
207th	Eswatini	59.9	0.0%
208th	Sierra Leone	59.7	0.2%
209th	Guinea	59.4	0.0%
210th	Mali	58.9	-0.6%
211th	South Sudan	57.6	-0.8%
212th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	57.1	-0.3%
213th	Lesotho	55.1	-0.2%
214th	Chad	53.1	0.2%
215th	Nigeria	53.1	0.1%
216th	Central African Republic	50.6	60.5%

FAQ

What was Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's life expectancy in 2020?▾

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's life expectancy in 2020 was 72.8. This ranked 111th globally.

How did Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's life expectancy change in 2020?▾

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's life expectancy decreased by 0.2% in 2020 compared to 2019.

Which country had the highest life expectancy in 2020?▾

Monaco had the highest life expectancy in 2020 at 86.1.

What is the life expectancy of Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of in 2020?▾

The life expectancy of Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of in 2020 was 72.8. This ranked 111th globally.

How does 2020 compare to 2019 for Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's life expectancy?▾

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's life expectancy went from 72.9 in 2019 to 72.8 in 2020, a 0.2% decrease.

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