This dataset provides estimates of life expectancy at birth and at 65 years of age and 95% uncertainty interval estimates by location, male, female and both sexes combined, 1970, 1975, 1980, 1985, 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010, 2016. This age-specific mortality dataset is used to enable health systems to target interventions for the older adult populations.

Over the past 160 years, life expectancy (from birth) in the United States has risen from 39.4 years in 1860, to 78.9 years in 2020. One of the major reasons for the overall increase of life expectancy in the last two centuries is the fact that the infant and child mortality rates have decreased by so much during this time. Medical advancements, fewer wars and improved living standards also mean that people are living longer than they did in previous centuries.

Despite this overall increase, the life expectancy dropped three times since 1860; from 1865 to 1870 during the American Civil War, from 1915 to 1920 during the First World War and following Spanish Flu epidemic, and it has dropped again between 2015 and now. The reason for the most recent drop in life expectancy is not a result of any specific event, but has been attributed to negative societal trends, such as unbalanced diets and sedentary lifestyles, high medical costs, and increasing rates of suicide and drug use.

Historical chart and dataset showing U.S. life expectancy by year from 1950 to 2025.

In India, life expectancy at the time of birth increased by 22 years between 1970 and 2019. This statistic shows the increase of the average life expectancy at birth in selected countries between 1970 and 2019.

Historical chart and dataset showing World life expectancy by year from 1950 to 2025.

In 1970, women born in the U.S. could expect to live for 1.3 years more than women in the Soviet Union, and men in the U.S. could expect to live for 2.7 years longer than their Soviet counterparts. U.S. figures would steadily increase over the following decade, whereas the economic decline of the Soviet Union would see life expectancy fall by two years for men and 0.8 years for women. In 1980, the difference in life expectancy from birth between the two countries was 7.5 years for men, and 4.8 years for women. This difference has largely been attributed to an increase in alcohol and substance abuse and accidental deaths among males in the Soviet Union, as well as more accurate reporting methods in the Soviet Union (suggesting that early figures may no be fully representational). Although Soviet life expectancy did increase in the 1980s, the gap between life expectancy there and in the U.S. remained significantly larger than in 1970, and this trend continued well into the 1990s and early-2000s as the post-Soviet states adjusted to the socio-economic impact of the Union's dissolution.

In 1970, life expectancy at birth in the Soviet Union and United States was fairly similar, at 69.3 and 70.8 years respectively; a difference of 1.5 years. As the decades progressed, however, this difference widened. While improvements in the recording of such statistics in the Soviet Union gave a more reliable picture of life expectancy across the region, especially in Central Asia and rural areas, the largest influence was due to the side-effects of deteriorating economic conditions. As lifestyles and medical care in the U.S. steadily improved, the decline in life expectancy the USSR was largely due to preventable causes, particularly alcoholism and accidental deaths among the male population. By 1985, life expectancy in the U.S. was 6.3 years higher than in the Soviet Union.

When looking at each gender, life expectancy among women in the U.S. in 1985 was seven years higher than men, whereas there was a difference of almost 10 years in the USSR. Women in the U.S. could also expect to live for five years longer than their Soviet counterparts in this year, while life expectancy among men in the U.S. was eight years higher than in the USSR. Overall, the gap between the two countries narrowed in the late 1980s as the Soviet Union's existence came to an end, however, this gap then grew even larger throughout most of the 1990s and early-2000s, and the post-Soviet states continue to deal with the social and economic legacy of Soviet dissolution on their respective demographics thirty years later.

Historical chart and dataset showing U.K. life expectancy by year from 1950 to 2025.

China life expectancy for 2025 is 77.81, a 0.22% increase from 2024.

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<li>China life expectancy for 2024 was <strong>77.64</strong>, a <strong>0.22% increase</strong> from 2023.</li>
<li>China life expectancy for 2023 was <strong>77.47</strong>, a <strong>0.22% increase</strong> from 2022.</li>
<li>China life expectancy for 2022 was <strong>77.30</strong>, a <strong>0.22% increase</strong> from 2021.</li>
</ul>Life expectancy at birth indicates the number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life.

In 2023, the average life expectancy at birth in South Korea was 83.5 years. This represents an increase compared to the previous year. Life expectancy has increased steadily since 2008, when it was 80.2 years. Overall, women show higher life expectancies than men, a difference of around six years.

Japan life expectancy for 2025 is 85.27, a 0.14% increase from 2024.

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<li>Japan life expectancy for 2024 was <strong>85.15</strong>, a <strong>0.14% increase</strong> from 2023.</li>
<li>Japan life expectancy for 2023 was <strong>85.03</strong>, a <strong>0.14% increase</strong> from 2022.</li>
<li>Japan life expectancy for 2022 was <strong>84.91</strong>, a <strong>0.14% increase</strong> from 2021.</li>
</ul>Life expectancy at birth indicates the number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life.

This table contains 2394 series, with data for years 1991 - 1991 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (1 items: Canada ...), Population group (19 items: Entire cohort; Income adequacy quintile 1 (lowest);Income adequacy quintile 2;Income adequacy quintile 3 ...), Age (14 items: At 25 years; At 30 years; At 40 years; At 35 years ...), Sex (3 items: Both sexes; Females; Males ...), Characteristics (3 items: Life expectancy; High 95% confidence interval; life expectancy; Low 95% confidence interval; life expectancy ...).

Life Expectancy at Birth: Mexico City data was reported at 76.325 Year in 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 76.220 Year for 2017. Life Expectancy at Birth: Mexico City data is updated yearly, averaging 72.400 Year from Dec 1970 (Median) to 2018, with 49 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 76.385 Year in 2013 and a record low of 62.130 Year in 1970. Life Expectancy at Birth: Mexico City data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by National Population Council. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Mexico – Table MX.G006: Life Expectancy at Birth: by State.

Poland life expectancy for 2025 is 79.60, a 0.21% increase from 2024.

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<li>Poland life expectancy for 2024 was <strong>79.43</strong>, a <strong>0.21% increase</strong> from 2023.</li>
<li>Poland life expectancy for 2023 was <strong>79.27</strong>, a <strong>0.2% increase</strong> from 2022.</li>
<li>Poland life expectancy for 2022 was <strong>79.11</strong>, a <strong>0.21% increase</strong> from 2021.</li>
</ul>Life expectancy at birth indicates the number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life.

Life Expectancy at Birth: Male: Mexico City data was reported at 73.360 Year in 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 73.260 Year for 2017. Life Expectancy at Birth: Male: Mexico City data is updated yearly, averaging 69.380 Year from Dec 1970 (Median) to 2018, with 49 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 73.360 Year in 2018 and a record low of 60.790 Year in 1970. Life Expectancy at Birth: Male: Mexico City data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by National Population Council. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Mexico – Table MX.G006: Life Expectancy at Birth: by State.

Mexico Life Expectancy at Birth: Male: Jalisco data was reported at 72.260 Year in 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 72.140 Year for 2017. Mexico Life Expectancy at Birth: Male: Jalisco data is updated yearly, averaging 70.140 Year from Dec 1970 (Median) to 2018, with 49 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 73.120 Year in 2006 and a record low of 58.450 Year in 1970. Mexico Life Expectancy at Birth: Male: Jalisco data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by National Population Council. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Mexico – Table MX.G006: Life Expectancy at Birth: by State.

Life expectancy in the United Kingdom was below 39 years in the year 1765, and over the course of the next two and a half centuries, it is expected to have increased by more than double, to 81.1 by the year 2020. Although life expectancy has generally increased throughout the UK's history, there were several times where the rate deviated from its previous trajectory. These changes were the result of smallpox epidemics in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, new sanitary and medical advancements throughout time (such as compulsory vaccination), and the First world War and Spanish Flu epidemic in the 1910s.

India life expectancy for 2025 is 70.82, a 0.29% increase from 2024.

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<li>India life expectancy for 2024 was <strong>70.62</strong>, a <strong>1.92% decline</strong> from 2023.</li>
<li>India life expectancy for 2023 was <strong>72.00</strong>, a <strong>0.43% increase</strong> from 2022.</li>
<li>India life expectancy for 2022 was <strong>71.70</strong>, a <strong>6.56% increase</strong> from 2021.</li>
</ul>Life expectancy at birth indicates the number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life.

In 2023, men aged 65 in South Korea were expected to live an average of about 19 more years, while women aged 65 were expected to live around 26 more years on average. The life expectancy of the elderly population has gradually increased since the 1970s.

Mexico Life Expectancy at Birth: Male: Guerrero data was reported at 69.980 Year in 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 69.830 Year for 2017. Mexico Life Expectancy at Birth: Male: Guerrero data is updated yearly, averaging 69.270 Year from Dec 1970 (Median) to 2018, with 49 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 72.650 Year in 2006 and a record low of 58.030 Year in 1970. Mexico Life Expectancy at Birth: Male: Guerrero data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by National Population Council. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Mexico – Table MX.G006: Life Expectancy at Birth: by State.