Barbados vs Cape Verde: Life expectancy

Barbados

76.18 years

in 2023

Cape Verde

76.06 years

in 2023

Barbados rank

108th

Cape Verde rank

109th

Life expectancy over time

Barbados
Cape Verde

How they compare

Barbados currently reports 76.18 years against 76.06 years in Cape Verde, a difference of 0.1195 years.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Barbados ahead.

Globally, Barbados ranks 108th and Cape Verde ranks 109th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Barbados
Life expectancy in Cape Verde
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.