Interactive map · 1950–2023

Life Expectancy Through Time

How long people live, country by country, from 1950 to 2023. Drag the timeline through the decades and see the world catch up.

Data as of 2023

All countries

All 201 countries

How long people live, country by country, from 1950 to 2023. Drag the timeline through the decades and see the world catch up.

Data as of 2023

Data	Source
Life expectancy	Our World in Data — life expectancy
Borders & map shapes	Natural Earth — Admin 0 countries (1:110m), via world-atlas

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