Bangladesh vs Nicaragua: Life expectancy

Bangladesh

74.67 years

in 2023

Nicaragua

74.95 years

in 2023

Bangladesh rank

124th

Nicaragua rank

122nd

Life expectancy over time

Bangladesh
Nicaragua

How they compare

Nicaragua currently reports 74.95 years against 74.67 years in Bangladesh, a difference of 0.2745 years.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Nicaragua ahead.

Globally, Bangladesh ranks 124th and Nicaragua ranks 122nd of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Bangladesh
Life expectancy in Nicaragua
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.