Burkina Faso vs Sierra Leone: Life expectancy

Burkina Faso

61.09 years

in 2023

Sierra Leone

61.79 years

in 2023

Burkina Faso rank

227th

Sierra Leone rank

225th

Life expectancy over time

Burkina Faso
Sierra Leone

How they compare

Sierra Leone currently reports 61.79 years against 61.09 years in Burkina Faso, a difference of 0.6938 years.

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

Globally, Burkina Faso ranks 227th and Sierra Leone ranks 225th 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.