China vs Jordan: Life expectancy

China

77.95 years

in 2023

Jordan

77.81 years

in 2023

China rank

76th

Jordan rank

79th

Life expectancy over time

China
Jordan

How they compare

China currently reports 77.95 years against 77.81 years in Jordan, a difference of 0.1384 years.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was China ahead.

Globally, China ranks 76th and Jordan ranks 79th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in China
Life expectancy in Jordan
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.