Botswana vs Libya: Life expectancy

Botswana

69.16 years

in 2023

Libya

69.34 years

in 2023

Botswana rank

177th

Libya rank

174th

Life expectancy over time

Botswana
Libya

How they compare

Libya currently reports 69.34 years against 69.16 years in Botswana, a difference of 0.1758 years.

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

Globally, Botswana ranks 177th and Libya ranks 174th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Botswana
Life expectancy in Libya
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.