American Samoa vs Seychelles: Life expectancy

American Samoa
72.85 years
in 2023
Seychelles
72.86 years
in 2023
American Samoa rank
143rd
Seychelles rank
142nd

Life expectancy over time

  • American Samoa
  • Seychelles
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How they compare

Seychelles currently reports 72.86 years against 72.85 years in American Samoa, a difference of 0.0102 years.

The two have swapped places 7 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was American Samoa ahead.

Globally, American Samoa ranks 143rd and Seychelles ranks 142nd of 236 countries.

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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

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.