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United Kingdom - Life Expectancy 2023

Name: United Kingdom Life Expectancy 2023
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Life expectancy at birth, total · World Bank

81.2 +0.2 from 2022 Global rank: 43rd

United Kingdom's life expectancy was 81.2 in 2023, increased +0.2 from 81.0 in 2022. This was the 43rd highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2023▾

Life Expectancy by Country - 2023
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Monaco	86.4	0.7%
2nd	San Marino	85.7	0.0%
3rd	Hong Kong SAR, China	85.2	1.9%
4th	Liechtenstein	84.8	0.9%
5th	French Polynesia	84.1	0.3%
6th	Switzerland	84.1	0.5%
7th	Japan	84.0	0.1%
8th	Andorra	84.0	0.0%
9th	Spain	83.9	0.9%
10th	Italy	83.7	1.2%
11th	Gibraltar	83.6	0.0%
12th	Malta	83.5	1.3%
13th	Korea	83.4	0.9%
14th	Luxembourg	83.4	0.5%
15th	Sweden	83.3	0.3%
16th	Israel	83.2	0.6%
17th	Kuwait	83.2	3.2%
18th	Macao SAR, China	83.2	0.1%
19th	Faroe Islands	83.1	0.2%
20th	Norway	83.1	0.7%
21st	Australia	83.1	-0.2%
22nd	New Zealand	83.0	1.3%
23rd	France	82.9	1.0%
24th	United Arab Emirates	82.9	3.0%
25th	Singapore	82.9	0.0%
26th	Ireland	82.9	0.4%
27th	Iceland	82.6	0.6%
28th	Belgium	82.4	0.8%
29th	Qatar	82.4	0.6%
30th	Bermuda	82.3	0.3%
31st	Portugal	82.3	0.8%
32nd	Slovenia	82.0	0.9%
33rd	Netherlands	81.9	0.4%
34th	Denmark	81.9	0.7%
35th	Puerto Rico (US)	81.7	2.8%
36th	Finland	81.7	0.6%
37th	Cyprus	81.6	1.5%
38th	Canada	81.6	0.5%
39th	Austria	81.5	0.3%
40th	Greece	81.5	0.9%
41st	European Union	81.4	0.9%
42nd	Bahrain	81.3	0.4%
43rd	United Kingdom	81.2	0.3%
44th	Chile	81.2	2.5%
45th	Channel Islands	81.1	0.1%
46th	Maldives	81.0	0.3%
47th	Isle of Man	81.0	0.1%
48th	Costa Rica	80.8	1.9%
49th	Germany	80.5	-0.1%
50th	Virgin Islands (US)	80.5	0.2%
51st	Cayman Islands	80.4	0.5%
52nd	St. Martin (French part)	80.2	0.0%
53rd	Oman	80.0	2.7%
54th	Czechia	79.9	1.2%
55th	Albania	79.6	1.1%
56th	Panama	79.6	0.3%
57th	Northern Mariana Islands	78.8	0.4%
58th	New Caledonia	78.8	1.4%
59th	Saudi Arabia	78.7	1.8%
60th	Poland	78.5	1.8%
61st	Estonia	78.5	0.8%
62nd	Croatia	78.5	1.2%
63rd	United States	78.4	1.2%
64th	Uruguay	78.1	2.2%
65th	Cuba	78.1	0.6%
66th	Kosovo	78.0	0.5%
67th	Slovak Republic	78.0	1.4%
68th	Turks and Caicos Islands	78.0	0.1%
69th	China	78.0	-0.3%
70th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	77.9	1.4%
71st	Lebanon	77.8	-0.2%
72nd	Jordan	77.8	0.9%
73rd	Peru	77.7	1.2%
74th	Colombia	77.7	1.6%
75th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	77.7	1.1%
76th	Antigua and Barbuda	77.6	0.1%
77th	Montenegro	77.6	1.8%
78th	Sri Lanka	77.5	0.2%
79th	Armenia	77.5	3.6%
80th	Argentina	77.4	2.1%
81st	Ecuador	77.4	1.1%
82nd	British Virgin Islands	77.3	0.1%
83rd	Guam	77.2	0.1%
84th	Türkiye	77.2	-0.6%
85th	Lithuania	77.0	1.8%
86th	Curaçao	76.8	0.1%
87th	Hungary	76.8	1.2%
88th	Malaysia	76.7	1.6%
89th	Romania	76.6	1.9%
90th	Tunisia	76.5	0.6%
91st	Thailand	76.4	1.5%
92nd	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	76.4	0.3%
93rd	Aruba	76.4	0.2%
94th	Algeria	76.3	0.2%
95th	Serbia	76.2	1.3%
96th	Barbados	76.2	0.7%
97th	Cabo Verde	76.1	0.2%
98th	Brazil	75.8	1.3%
99th	Bulgaria	75.7	2.1%
100th	Latvia	75.7	1.9%
101st	Brunei Darussalam	75.3	3.3%
102nd	North Macedonia	75.3	1.2%
103rd	Morocco	75.3	0.2%
104th	Grenada	75.2	0.1%
105th	Mexico	75.1	1.5%
106th	Seychelles	75.0	1.7%
107th	Nicaragua	74.9	0.6%
108th	Bangladesh	74.7	0.5%
109th	Viet Nam	74.6	0.1%
110th	Bahamas, The	74.6	0.1%
111th	Georgia	74.5	0.5%
112th	Azerbaijan	74.4	0.4%
113th	Kazakhstan	74.4	1.2%
114th	Belarus	74.2	0.1%
115th	Paraguay	73.8	2.1%
116th	Dominican Republic	73.7	-0.7%
117th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	73.6	0.0%
118th	Suriname	73.6	0.5%
119th	Belize	73.6	1.9%
120th	Trinidad and Tobago	73.5	0.2%
121st	Ukraine	73.4	1.1%
122nd	Mauritius	73.4	-0.1%
123rd	Russian Federation	73.3	1.0%
124th	Bhutan	73.0	0.3%
125th	Tonga	72.9	0.4%
126th	Honduras	72.9	0.2%
127th	American Samoa	72.9	0.1%
128th	St. Lucia	72.7	0.0%
129th	Guatemala	72.6	2.0%
130th	Uzbekistan	72.4	0.3%
131st	Iraq	72.3	0.4%
132nd	Kyrgyz Republic	72.2	0.3%
133rd	St. Kitts and Nevis	72.1	2.6%
134th	Mongolia	72.1	0.3%
135th	Syrian Arab Republic	72.1	-0.9%
136th	El Salvador	72.1	0.2%
137th	India	72.0	0.4%
138th	Tajikistan	71.8	0.3%
139th	Samoa	71.7	0.2%
140th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	71.6	0.9%
141st	Greenland	71.5	0.0%
142nd	Jamaica	71.5	0.0%
143rd	Vanuatu	71.5	0.2%
144th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	71.2	0.1%
145th	Moldova	71.2	-0.5%
146th	Indonesia	71.1	0.3%
147th	Dominica	71.1	0.1%
148th	Cambodia	70.7	0.2%
149th	Solomon Islands	70.5	0.2%
150th	Nepal	70.4	0.4%
151st	Guyana	70.2	0.4%
152nd	Turkmenistan	70.1	0.2%
153rd	Philippines	69.8	0.5%
154th	São Tomé and Principe	69.7	0.7%
155th	Libya	69.3	-6.9%
156th	Yemen, Republic of	69.3	2.0%
157th	Palau	69.3	0.5%
158th	Botswana	69.2	0.6%
159th	Lao PDR	69.0	0.4%
160th	Senegal	68.7	1.3%
161st	Eritrea	68.6	1.2%
162nd	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	68.6	1.7%
163rd	Mauritania	68.5	0.3%
164th	Gabon	68.3	0.9%
165th	Uganda	68.3	0.9%
166th	Rwanda	67.8	0.4%
167th	Timor-Leste	67.7	0.5%
168th	Pakistan	67.6	0.3%
169th	Namibia	67.4	5.0%
170th	Malawi	67.4	2.0%
171st	Fiji	67.3	0.3%
172nd	Micronesia, Federated States of	67.2	0.4%
173rd	Tuvalu	67.1	0.4%
174th	Tanzania	67.0	0.2%
175th	Marshall Islands	66.9	0.3%
176th	Myanmar	66.9	0.6%
177th	Comoros	66.8	0.4%
178th	Kiribati	66.5	0.3%
179th	Zambia	66.3	1.6%
180th	Sudan	66.3	1.0%
181st	South Africa	66.1	1.0%
182nd	Papua New Guinea	66.1	1.3%
183rd	Afghanistan	66.0	0.6%
184th	Djibouti	66.0	0.7%
185th	Gambia, The	65.9	1.5%
186th	Congo, Republic of	65.8	1.2%
187th	Ghana	65.5	0.4%
188th	West Bank and Gaza	65.2	-15.0%
189th	Haiti	64.9	1.5%
190th	Angola	64.6	0.6%
191st	Eswatini	64.1	1.7%
192nd	Guinea-Bissau	64.1	0.8%
193rd	Equatorial Guinea	63.7	0.6%
194th	Cameroon	63.7	2.0%
195th	Burundi	63.7	1.2%
196th	Kenya	63.6	0.2%
197th	Madagascar	63.6	0.9%
198th	Mozambique	63.6	1.0%
199th	Zimbabwe	62.8	0.7%
200th	Togo	62.7	0.7%
201st	Liberia	62.2	0.4%
202nd	Nauru	62.1	0.3%
203rd	Côte d'Ivoire	61.9	0.6%
204th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	61.9	1.5%
205th	Sierra Leone	61.8	0.8%
206th	Niger	61.2	1.3%
207th	Burkina Faso	61.1	0.6%
208th	Benin	60.8	0.5%
209th	Guinea	60.7	0.5%
210th	Mali	60.4	0.7%
211th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	58.8	9.1%
212th	South Sudan	57.6	0.7%
213th	Central African Republic	57.4	205.1%
214th	Lesotho	57.4	1.0%
215th	Chad	55.1	1.0%
216th	Nigeria	54.5	0.7%

FAQ

What was United Kingdom's life expectancy in 2023?▾

United Kingdom's life expectancy in 2023 was 81.2. This ranked 43rd globally.

How did United Kingdom's life expectancy change in 2023?▾

United Kingdom's life expectancy increased by 0.3% in 2023 compared to 2022.

Which country had the highest life expectancy in 2023?▾

Monaco had the highest life expectancy in 2023 at 86.4.

What is the life expectancy of United Kingdom in 2023?▾

The life expectancy of United Kingdom in 2023 was 81.2. This ranked 43rd globally.

How does 2023 compare to 2022 for United Kingdom's life expectancy?▾

United Kingdom's life expectancy went from 81.0 in 2022 to 81.2 in 2023, a 0.3% increase.

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