Burkina Faso vs Mali: Life expectancy

Burkina Faso

61.09 years

in 2023

Mali

60.44 years

in 2023

Burkina Faso rank

227th

Mali rank

230th

Life expectancy over time

Burkina Faso
Mali

How they compare

Burkina Faso currently reports 61.09 years against 60.44 years in Mali, a difference of 0.6526 years.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Burkina Faso ahead.

Globally, Burkina Faso ranks 227th and Mali ranks 230th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Burkina Faso
Life expectancy in Mali
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.