Benin vs Somalia: Life expectancy

Benin

60.77 years

in 2023

Somalia

58.82 years

in 2023

Benin rank

228th

Somalia rank

231st

Life expectancy over time

Benin
Somalia

How they compare

Benin currently reports 60.77 years against 58.82 years in Somalia, a difference of 1.96 years.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Somalia ahead.

Globally, Benin ranks 228th and Somalia ranks 231st of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Benin
Life expectancy in Somalia
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.