Argentina vs Sri Lanka: Life expectancy

Argentina

77.39 years

in 2023

Sri Lanka

77.48 years

in 2023

Argentina rank

86th

Sri Lanka rank

84th

Life expectancy over time

Argentina
Sri Lanka

How they compare

Sri Lanka currently reports 77.48 years against 77.39 years in Argentina, a difference of 0.0881 years.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 76 shared years of data; in 1935 it was Argentina ahead.

Globally, Argentina ranks 86th and Sri Lanka ranks 84th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Argentina
Life expectancy in Sri Lanka
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.