Bolivia vs Laos: Life expectancy

Bolivia

68.58 years

in 2023

Laos

68.96 years

in 2023

Bolivia rank

181st

Laos rank

178th

Life expectancy over time

Bolivia
Laos

How they compare

Laos currently reports 68.96 years against 68.58 years in Bolivia, a difference of 0.3823 years.

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

Globally, Bolivia ranks 181st and Laos ranks 178th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Bolivia
Life expectancy in Laos
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.