Cape Verde vs Latvia: Life expectancy

Cape Verde

76.06 years

in 2023

Latvia

76.19 years

in 2023

Cape Verde rank

109th

Latvia rank

106th

Life expectancy over time

Cape Verde
Latvia

How they compare

Latvia currently reports 76.19 years against 76.06 years in Cape Verde, a difference of 0.1311 years.

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

Globally, Cape Verde ranks 109th and Latvia ranks 106th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Cape Verde
Life expectancy in Latvia
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.