Central African Republic vs Mali: Life expectancy

Central African Republic

57.41 years

in 2023

Mali

60.44 years

in 2023

Central African Republic rank

233rd

Mali rank

230th

Life expectancy over time

Central African Republic
Mali

How they compare

Mali currently reports 60.44 years against 57.41 years in Central African Republic, a difference of 3.03 years.

That makes Mali's figure about 1.1 times Central African Republic's.

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

Globally, Central African Republic ranks 233rd and Mali ranks 230th 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.