This is a list of world regions by life expectancy at birth.
Estimation of the World Bank Group for 2021. [1] [2] [3] The values in the World Bank Group tables are rounded. All calculations are based on raw data, so due to the nuances of rounding, in some places illusory inconsistencies of indicators arose, with a size of 0.01 year.
World regions | 2021 | Historical data | COVID-19 impact | ||||||||||||
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All | Male | Female | Sex gap | 2000 | 2000 →2014 |
2014 | 2014 →2019 |
2019 | 2019 →2020 |
2020 | 2020 →2021 |
2021 | 2019 →2021 |
2014 →2021 | |
European Union | 80.39 | 77.66 | 83.27 | 5.61 | 77.08 | 3.80 | 80.87 | 0.44 | 81.31 | −0.86 | 80.45 | −0.06 | 80.39 | −0.93 | −0.48 |
North America | 76.98 | 74.24 | 79.85 | 5.62 | 76.89 | 2.25 | 79.14 | 0.01 | 79.14 | −1.68 | 77.46 | −0.49 | 76.98 | −2.16 | −2.16 |
Europe & Central Asia | 76.63 | 73.51 | 79.95 | 6.44 | 73.13 | 4.16 | 77.30 | 0.89 | 78.19 | −1.23 | 76.96 | −0.33 | 76.63 | −1.56 | −0.67 |
East Asia & Pacific | 76.39 | 73.64 | 79.33 | 5.69 | 71.55 | 4.18 | 75.73 | 1.07 | 76.80 | −0.04 | 76.76 | −0.37 | 76.39 | −0.40 | 0.66 |
Central Europe & the Baltics | 74.93 | 71.32 | 78.73 | 7.41 | 72.72 | 3.96 | 76.68 | 0.59 | 77.27 | −1.18 | 76.09 | −1.16 | 74.93 | −2.33 | −1.74 |
Middle East & North Africa | 72.75 | 70.64 | 75.08 | 4.44 | 69.28 | 3.34 | 72.62 | 1.34 | 73.96 | −1.01 | 72.95 | −0.20 | 72.75 | −1.21 | 0.12 |
Latin America & Caribbean | 72.15 | 68.80 | 75.70 | 6.90 | 71.23 | 3.32 | 74.55 | 0.49 | 75.04 | −2.00 | 73.04 | −0.89 | 72.15 | −2.89 | −2.40 |
World | 71.33 | 68.89 | 73.95 | 5.06 | 67.70 | 4.18 | 71.88 | 1.10 | 72.98 | −0.74 | 72.24 | −0.92 | 71.33 | −1.65 | −0.55 |
Arab world | 70.81 | 68.83 | 72.99 | 4.16 | 67.30 | 3.20 | 70.49 | 1.35 | 71.84 | −0.92 | 70.92 | −0.11 | 70.81 | −1.03 | 0.32 |
South Asia | 67.58 | 65.89 | 69.43 | 3.54 | 62.89 | 5.75 | 68.64 | 1.83 | 70.47 | −0.72 | 69.75 | −2.17 | 67.58 | −2.89 | −1.06 |
Africa Eastern & Southern | 62.45 | 59.89 | 65.08 | 5.18 | 51.96 | 9.37 | 61.34 | 2.42 | 63.76 | −0.44 | 63.31 | −0.86 | 62.45 | −1.30 | 1.12 |
Sub-Saharan Africa | 60.24 | 58.26 | 62.28 | 4.01 | 51.26 | 7.88 | 59.14 | 2.10 | 61.24 | −0.40 | 60.85 | −0.61 | 60.24 | −1.00 | 1.10 |
Africa Western & Central | 56.99 | 55.90 | 58.10 | 2.20 | 50.22 | 5.70 | 55.92 | 1.63 | 57.56 | −0.33 | 57.23 | −0.24 | 56.99 | −0.57 | 1.07 |
Estimation of the analytical agency of the UN. [4] [5] [6] By default, the list is sorted by 2022.
World regions | 2019 | 2019 →2021 |
2021 | 2021 →2022 |
2022 | 2019 →2022 | |||||||||
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overall | male | female | F Δ M | overall | male | female | F Δ M | overall | male | female | F Δ M | ||||
East Asia & Pacific | 75.4 | 73.1 | 78.0 | 4.9 | 0.2 | 75.6 | 72.9 | 78.5 | 5.6 | 0.6 | 76.2 | 73.6 | 79.0 | 5.4 | 0.8 |
Latin America & Caribbean | 75.6 | 72.4 | 78.7 | 6.3 | −3.5 | 72.1 | 68.8 | 75.6 | 6.8 | 1.6 | 73.7 | 70.6 | 76.9 | 6.3 | −1.9 |
Europe & Central Asia | 74.4 | 71.1 | 77.7 | 6.6 | −1.5 | 72.9 | 69.4 | 76.4 | 7.0 | 0.7 | 73.6 | 70.2 | 77.0 | 6.8 | −0.8 |
World | 72.8 | 70.6 | 75.0 | 4.4 | −1.4 | 71.4 | 68.9 | 74.0 | 5.1 | 0.6 | 72.0 | 69.6 | 74.5 | 4.9 | −0.8 |
Arab states | 72.1 | 70.4 | 73.9 | 3.5 | −1.2 | 70.9 | 68.9 | 73.1 | 4.2 | 0.4 | 71.3 | 69.3 | 73.5 | 4.2 | −0.8 |
South Asia | 69.9 | 68.7 | 71.3 | 2.6 | −2.0 | 67.9 | 66.1 | 69.8 | 3.7 | 0.5 | 68.4 | 66.7 | 70.4 | 3.7 | −1.5 |
Sub-Saharan Africa | 61.5 | 59.8 | 63.3 | 3.5 | −1.4 | 60.1 | 58.2 | 62.1 | 3.9 | 0.5 | 60.6 | 58.7 | 62.6 | 3.9 | −0.9 |
Estimation of the World Health Organization for 2019. [7]
WHO regions [8] | Life expectancy at birth | HALE at birth | Life expectancy at age 60 | HALE at age 60 | ||||||||||||||||
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All | M | F | FΔM |
Δ 2000 |
All | M | F | FΔM | Δ 2000 |
All | M | F | FΔM | Δ 2000 |
All | M | F | FΔM | Δ 2000 | |
Europe [9] | 78.2 | 75.1 | 81.3 | 6.2 | 5.7 | 68.3 | 66.6 | 70.0 | 3.4 | 4.6 | 22.5 | 20.5 | 24.3 | 3.8 | 2.9 | 17.1 | 15.8 | 18.3 | 2.5 | 2.1 |
Western Pacific [10] | 77.7 | 74.8 | 80.8 | 6.0 | 5.3 | 68.6 | 67.0 | 70.2 | 3.2 | 4.3 | 21.8 | 19.8 | 23.9 | 4.1 | 2.5 | 16.5 | 15.4 | 17.7 | 2.3 | 1.8 |
Americas [11] | 77.2 | 74.5 | 79.8 | 5.3 | 3.1 | 66.2 | 64.8 | 67.5 | 2.7 | 2.1 | 22.7 | 21.2 | 24.0 | 2.8 | 1.6 | 16.6 | 15.7 | 17.4 | 1.7 | 0.9 |
World | 73.3 | 70.8 | 75.9 | 5.1 | 6.5 | 63.7 | 62.5 | 64.9 | 2.4 | 5.4 | 21.1 | 19.5 | 22.7 | 3.2 | 2.3 | 15.8 | 14.8 | 16.6 | 1.8 | 1.7 |
South-East Asia [12] | 71.4 | 69.9 | 73.1 | 3.2 | 8.0 | 61.5 | 61.1 | 61.9 | 0.8 | 7.0 | 19.1 | 18.2 | 20.0 | 1.8 | 2.5 | 13.7 | 13.3 | 14.1 | 0.8 | 1.7 |
Eastern Mediterranean [13] | 69.7 | 68.3 | 71.3 | 3.0 | 4.7 | 60.4 | 60.2 | 60.7 | 0.5 | 3.8 | 18.5 | 17.8 | 19.3 | 1.5 | 1.1 | 13.6 | 13.4 | 13.9 | 0.5 | 0.7 |
Africa [14] | 64.5 | 62.4 | 66.6 | 4.2 | 11.8 | 56.0 | 55.0 | 57.1 | 2.1 | 10.2 | 17.9 | 16.7 | 19.0 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 13.3 | 12.6 | 13.9 | 1.3 | 1.8 |