Bosnia and Herzegovina vs Cuba: Life expectancy

Bosnia and Herzegovina

77.85 years

in 2023

Cuba

78.09 years

in 2023

Bosnia and Herzegovina rank

77th

Cuba rank

74th

Life expectancy over time

Bosnia and Herzegovina
Cuba

How they compare

Cuba currently reports 78.09 years against 77.85 years in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a difference of 0.2351 years.

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

Globally, Bosnia and Herzegovina ranks 77th and Cuba ranks 74th of 236 countries.

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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.