Cambodia vs Nepal: Life expectancy

Cambodia

70.67 years

in 2023

Nepal

70.35 years

in 2023

Cambodia rank

165th

Nepal rank

167th

Life expectancy over time

Cambodia
Nepal

How they compare

Cambodia currently reports 70.67 years against 70.35 years in Nepal, a difference of 0.3138 years.

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

Globally, Cambodia ranks 165th and Nepal ranks 167th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Cambodia
Life expectancy in Nepal
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.