Bosnia and Herzegovina vs Jordan: Life expectancy

Bosnia and Herzegovina

77.85 years

in 2023

Jordan

77.81 years

in 2023

Bosnia and Herzegovina rank

77th

Jordan rank

79th

Life expectancy over time

Bosnia and Herzegovina
Jordan

How they compare

Bosnia and Herzegovina currently reports 77.85 years against 77.81 years in Jordan, a difference of 0.0359 years.

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

Globally, Bosnia and Herzegovina ranks 77th and Jordan ranks 79th 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.