Ranking the Top 50 Countries by Average Life Expectancy

Average life expectancy of top 50 countries in 2023

Note: As I live in the United States, and most of my visitors are from there, many will ask “why is America ranked so low?” This has been studied and there answer, among many other reasons including the most COVID deaths, can also be seen in the data in lack of universal health care, higher caloric intake, more guns, more drugs and higher rates of child poverty (again among other differences).

1. Hong Kong: 85.83
2. Macao: 85.51
3. Japan: 84.95
4. Switzerland: 84.38
5. Singapore: 84.27
6. Italy: 84.20
7. South Korea: 84.14
8. Spain: 84.05
9. Malta: 83.85
10. Australia: 83.73
11. French Polynesia: 83.70
12. Sweden: 83.65
13. Norway: 83.55
14. Martinique: 83.45
15. Israel: 83.39
16. France: 83.35
17. Guadeloupe: 83.34
18. New Zealand: 83.16
19. Canada: 83.02
20. Iceland: 82.96
21. Ireland: 82.88
22. Réunion: 82.78
23. Luxembourg: 82.75
24. Netherlands: 82.58
25. Austria: 82.57
26. Finland: 82.52
27. Belgium: 82.46
28. Portugal: 82.42
29. Slovenia: 82.31
30. United Kingdom: 82.31
31. Germany: 82.18
32. Cyprus: 82.05
33. Denmark: 82.03
34. Greece: 82.00
35. Qatar: 81.73
36. Taiwan: 81.47
37. New Caledonia: 81.18
38. Chile: 81.16
39. Maldives: 81.07
40. Bahrain: 80.69
41. United Arab Emirates: 80.46
42. Kuwait: 80.45
43. Costa Rica: 80.26
44. Puerto Rico: 79.94
45. Thailand: 79.91
46. Czech Republic: Czechia: 79.82
47. United States: 79.74
48. Antigua and Barbuda: 79.42
49. Croatia: 79.40
50. Estonia: 79.31

Source: Worldometer