Bolivia vs Mauritania: Life expectancy

Bolivia

68.58 years

in 2023

Mauritania

68.48 years

in 2023

Bolivia rank

181st

Mauritania rank

182nd

Life expectancy over time

Bolivia
Mauritania

How they compare

Bolivia currently reports 68.58 years against 68.48 years in Mauritania, a difference of 0.0978 years.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Bolivia ahead.

Globally, Bolivia ranks 181st and Mauritania ranks 182nd of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Bolivia
Life expectancy in Mauritania
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.