Burkina Faso vs Niger: Life expectancy

Burkina Faso

61.09 years

in 2023

Niger

61.18 years

in 2023

Burkina Faso rank

227th

Niger rank

226th

Life expectancy over time

Burkina Faso
Niger

How they compare

Niger currently reports 61.18 years against 61.09 years in Burkina Faso, a difference of 0.0913 years.

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

Globally, Burkina Faso ranks 227th and Niger ranks 226th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Burkina Faso
Life expectancy in Niger
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.