Lesotho vs Papua New Guinea: Life expectancy at age 15

Lesotho

75.72 years

in 2100

Papua New Guinea

75.89 years

in 2100

Lesotho rank

217th

Papua New Guinea rank

215th

Life expectancy at age 15 over time

Papua New Guinea currently reports 75.89 years against 75.72 years in Lesotho, a difference of 0.167 years.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 151 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Lesotho ahead.

Globally, Lesotho ranks 217th and Papua New Guinea ranks 215th of 236 countries.

Indicator: Life expectancy at age 15
Unit: years
Source: Human Mortality Database (2025); UN, World Population Prospects (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 236 places, 36,894 data points, 1751–2100
Last refreshed: 06 August 2026

The total period life expectancy at age 15, in a given year.