China vs Turks and Caicos Islands: Life expectancy

China
77.95 years
in 2023
Turks and Caicos Islands
78.01 years
in 2023
China rank
76th
Turks and Caicos Islands rank
75th

Life expectancy over time

  • China
  • Turks and Caicos Islands
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How they compare

Turks and Caicos Islands currently reports 78.01 years against 77.95 years in China, a difference of 0.0548 years.

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

Globally, China ranks 76th and Turks and Caicos Islands ranks 75th 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.