China vs Cuba: Life expectancy

China

77.95 years

in 2023

Cuba

78.09 years

in 2023

China rank

76th

Cuba rank

74th

Life expectancy over time

China
Cuba

How they compare

Cuba currently reports 78.09 years against 77.95 years in China, a difference of 0.1326 years.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 75 shared years of data; in 1930 it was Cuba ahead.

Globally, China ranks 76th and Cuba ranks 74th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in China
Life expectancy in Cuba
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.