Benin vs Burkina Faso: Life expectancy

Benin

60.77 years

in 2023

Burkina Faso

61.09 years

in 2023

Benin rank

228th

Burkina Faso rank

227th

Life expectancy over time

Benin
Burkina Faso

How they compare

Burkina Faso currently reports 61.09 years against 60.77 years in Benin, a difference of 0.3182 years.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Benin ahead.

Globally, Benin ranks 228th and Burkina Faso ranks 227th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Benin
Life expectancy in Burkina Faso
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.