Bhutan vs Russia: Life expectancy

Bhutan

72.98 years

in 2023

Russia

73.15 years

in 2023

Bhutan rank

139th

Russia rank

138th

Life expectancy over time

Bhutan
Russia

How they compare

Russia currently reports 73.15 years against 72.98 years in Bhutan, a difference of 0.1788 years.

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

Globally, Bhutan ranks 139th and Russia ranks 138th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Bhutan
Life expectancy in Russia
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.