Cameroon vs Kenya: Life expectancy

Cameroon

63.7 years

in 2023

Kenya

63.65 years

in 2023

Cameroon rank

214th

Kenya rank

216th

Life expectancy over time

Cameroon
Kenya

How they compare

Cameroon currently reports 63.7 years against 63.65 years in Kenya, a difference of 0.0537 years.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Kenya ahead.

Globally, Cameroon ranks 214th and Kenya ranks 216th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Cameroon
Life expectancy in Kenya
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.