Burkina Faso vs Democratic Republic of Congo: Life expectancy

Burkina Faso

61.09 years

in 2023

Democratic Republic of Congo

61.9 years

in 2023

Burkina Faso rank

227th

Democratic Republic of Congo rank

224th

Life expectancy over time

Burkina Faso
Democratic Republic of Congo

How they compare

Democratic Republic of Congo currently reports 61.9 years against 61.09 years in Burkina Faso, a difference of 0.803 years.

The two have swapped places 10 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Democratic Republic of Congo ahead.

Globally, Burkina Faso ranks 227th and Democratic Republic of Congo ranks 224th 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.