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Central African Republic vs Nigeria: Life expectancy

Central African Republic
57.41 years
in 2023
Nigeria
54.46 years
in 2023
Central African Republic rank
233rd
Nigeria rank
236th

Life expectancy over time

  • Central African Republic
  • Nigeria
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How they compare

Central African Republic currently reports 57.41 years against 54.46 years in Nigeria, a difference of 2.95 years.

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

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

Globally, Central African Republic ranks 233rd and Nigeria ranks 236th 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
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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.