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Life expectancy in Africa

Life expectancy in Africa: latest available values for 54 countries, observation years, World Bank source and CSV export. The figures below come from prepared World Bank datasets. Every row shows its year; missing data is never replaced with an estimate.

Coverage : 54/54 countries · Source code : SP.DYN.LE00.IN · Retrieved : 2026-10-20

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Values by country

Life expectancy · Latest available observation, with each country’s actual year
CountryLife expectancyYearSource
Algeria76.5 yrs2024World Bank WDI
Angola64.8 yrs2024World Bank WDI
Benin61 yrs2024World Bank WDI
Botswana69.3 yrs2024World Bank WDI
Burkina Faso61.3 yrs2024World Bank WDI
Burundi63.8 yrs2024World Bank WDI
Cabo Verde76.2 yrs2024World Bank WDI
Cameroon64 yrs2024World Bank WDI
Central African Republic57.7 yrs2024World Bank WDI
Chad55.2 yrs2024World Bank WDI
Comoros67 yrs2024World Bank WDI
Congo, Rep.66 yrs2024World Bank WDI
Côte d’Ivoire62.1 yrs2024World Bank WDI
Djibouti66.2 yrs2024World Bank WDI
DR Congo62.1 yrs2024World Bank WDI
Egypt71.8 yrs2024World Bank WDI
Equatorial Guinea63.9 yrs2024World Bank WDI
Eritrea68.9 yrs2024World Bank WDI
Eswatini64.3 yrs2024World Bank WDI
Ethiopia67.6 yrs2024World Bank WDI
Gabon68.5 yrs2024World Bank WDI
Ghana65.7 yrs2024World Bank WDI
Guinea60.9 yrs2024World Bank WDI
Guinea-Bissau64.3 yrs2024World Bank WDI
Kenya63.8 yrs2024World Bank WDI
Lesotho57.8 yrs2024World Bank WDI
Liberia62.3 yrs2024World Bank WDI
Libya71.1 yrs2024World Bank WDI
Madagascar63.8 yrs2024World Bank WDI
Malawi67.6 yrs2024World Bank WDI
Mali60.7 yrs2024World Bank WDI
Mauritania68.7 yrs2024World Bank WDI
Mauritius73.8 yrs2024World Bank WDI
Morocco75.5 yrs2024World Bank WDI
Mozambique63.8 yrs2024World Bank WDI
Namibia67.5 yrs2024World Bank WDI
Niger61.4 yrs2024World Bank WDI
Nigeria54.6 yrs2024World Bank WDI
Rwanda68 yrs2024World Bank WDI
São Tomé and Príncipe69.9 yrs2024World Bank WDI
Senegal68.9 yrs2024World Bank WDI
Seychelles76.3 yrs2024World Bank WDI
Sierra Leone62 yrs2024World Bank WDI
Somalia59 yrs2024World Bank WDI
South Africa66.3 yrs2024World Bank WDI
South Sudan57.7 yrs2024World Bank WDI
Sudan66.5 yrs2024World Bank WDI
Tanzania67.2 yrs2024World Bank WDI
The Gambia66.1 yrs2024World Bank WDI
Togo62.9 yrs2024World Bank WDI
Tunisia76.7 yrs2024World Bank WDI
Uganda68.5 yrs2024World Bank WDI
Zambia66.5 yrs2024World Bank WDI
Zimbabwe63.1 yrs2024World Bank WDI

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