Brunei vs Bulgaria: Life expectancy

Brunei

75.33 years

in 2023

Bulgaria

75.64 years

in 2023

Brunei rank

117th

Bulgaria rank

115th

Life expectancy over time

Brunei
Bulgaria

How they compare

Bulgaria currently reports 75.64 years against 75.33 years in Brunei, a difference of 0.3097 years.

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

Globally, Brunei ranks 117th and Bulgaria ranks 115th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Brunei
Life expectancy in Bulgaria
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.