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Life expectancy at birth
How long a newborn would live if current death rates stayed the same.
Period life expectancy is the number of years the average person born in a certain year would live if they experienced the same chances of dying at each age as people did that year.
years · annual
Values in years.
Exactly the columns a delivery carries.
| Date | Code | Series | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | OWID_WRL | World | 73.1694 |
| 2023 | USA | United States | 79.3043 |
| 2023 | CHN | China | 77.9529 |
| 2023 | IND | India | 72.0026 |
| 2023 | DEU | Germany | 81.3777 |
| 2023 | GBR | United Kingdom | 81.3015 |
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How long a newborn would live if current death rates stayed the same.
| 2023 |
| JPN |
| Japan |
| 84.7123 |
| 2023 | BRA | Brazil | 75.8482 |
| 2022 | OWID_WRL | World | 72.6398 |
| 2022 | USA | United States | 77.9789 |
| 2022 | CHN | China | 78.2021 |
| 2022 | IND | India | 71.6984 |
| 2022 | DEU | Germany | 80.5796 |
| 2022 | GBR | United Kingdom | 81.0744 |
| 2022 | JPN | Japan | 84.0541 |
| 2022 | BRA | Brazil | 74.8719 |
| 2021 | OWID_WRL | World | 70.865 |
| 2021 | USA | United States | 76.3836 |
| 2021 | CHN | China | 78.1166 |
| 2021 | IND | India | 67.2823 |
| 2021 | DEU | Germany | 81.1059 |
| 2021 | GBR | United Kingdom | 80.708 |
| 2021 | JPN | Japan | 84.55 |
| 2021 | BRA | Brazil | 73.0377 |
| 2020 | OWID_WRL | World | 71.9166 |
| 2020 | USA | United States | 77.0115 |
| 2020 | CHN | China | 78.0191 |
| 2020 | IND | India | 70.1563 |
| 2020 | DEU | Germany | 81.0036 |
| 2020 | GBR | United Kingdom | 80.3854 |
| 2020 | JPN | Japan | 84.6703 |
| 2020 | BRA | Brazil | 74.5058 |
| 2019 | OWID_WRL | World | 72.6093 |
| 2019 | USA | United States | 78.916 |
| 2019 | CHN | China | 77.9396 |
| 2019 | IND | India | 70.7463 |
| 2019 | DEU | Germany | 81.1893 |
| 2019 | GBR | United Kingdom | 81.4426 |
| 2019 | JPN | Japan | 84.4177 |
| 2019 | BRA | Brazil | 75.8093 |
| 2018 | OWID_WRL | World | 72.3885 |
| 2018 | USA | United States | 78.7997 |
| 2018 | CHN | China | 77.709 |
| 2018 | IND | India | 70.4152 |
| 2018 | DEU | Germany | 80.8747 |
| 2018 | GBR | United Kingdom | 81.1229 |
| 2018 | JPN | Japan | 84.289 |
| 2018 | BRA | Brazil | 75.6335 |
| 2017 | OWID_WRL | World | 72.067 |
| 2017 | USA | United States | 78.6483 |
| 2017 | CHN | China | 77.2353 |
| 2017 | IND | India | 70.0676 |
| 2017 | DEU | Germany | 80.9371 |
| 2017 | GBR | United Kingdom | 81.164 |
| 2017 | JPN | Japan | 84.1891 |
| 2017 | BRA | Brazil | 75.3835 |
| 2016 | OWID_WRL | World | 71.8768 |
| 2016 | USA | United States | 78.686 |
| 2016 | CHN | China | 77.214 |
| 2016 | IND | India | 69.7091 |
| 2016 | DEU | Germany | 80.8371 |
| 2016 | GBR | United Kingdom | 81.0675 |
| 2016 | JPN | Japan | 84.0568 |
| 2016 | BRA | Brazil | 75.0805 |
Source: Riley (2005); Zijdeman et al. (2015); HMD (2025); UN WPP (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data. Via Our World in Data (https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy).
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