Afghanistan vs Djibouti: Life expectancy

Afghanistan

66.03 years

in 2023

Djibouti

65.99 years

in 2023

Afghanistan rank

203rd

Djibouti rank

204th

Life expectancy over time

Afghanistan
Djibouti

How they compare

Afghanistan currently reports 66.03 years against 65.99 years in Djibouti, a difference of 0.0481 years.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Djibouti ahead.

Globally, Afghanistan ranks 203rd and Djibouti ranks 204th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Afghanistan
Life expectancy in Djibouti
Full country ranking

About this data

Indicator: Life expectancy
Unit: years
Source: Riley (2005); Zijdeman et al. (2015); HMD (2025); UN WPP (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 236 places, 19,452 data points, 1543–2023
Last refreshed: 06 August 2026

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.