Cameroon vs Guinea-Bissau: Life expectancy

Cameroon

63.7 years

in 2023

Guinea-Bissau

64.08 years

in 2023

Cameroon rank

214th

Guinea-Bissau rank

212th

Life expectancy over time

Cameroon
Guinea-Bissau

How they compare

Guinea-Bissau currently reports 64.08 years against 63.7 years in Cameroon, a difference of 0.3853 years.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Guinea-Bissau ahead.

Globally, Cameroon ranks 214th and Guinea-Bissau ranks 212th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Cameroon
Life expectancy in Guinea-Bissau
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.