American Samoa vs Guatemala: Life expectancy

American Samoa

72.85 years

in 2023

Guatemala

72.6 years

in 2023

American Samoa rank

143rd

Guatemala rank

145th

Life expectancy over time

American Samoa
Guatemala

How they compare

American Samoa currently reports 72.85 years against 72.6 years in Guatemala, a difference of 0.2495 years.

Across all 74 years both countries report, American Samoa has been ahead every year.

Globally, American Samoa ranks 143rd and Guatemala ranks 145th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in American Samoa
Life expectancy in Guatemala
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.