Democratic Republic of Congo vs Liberia: Life expectancy

Democratic Republic of Congo

61.9 years

in 2023

Liberia

62.16 years

in 2023

Democratic Republic of Congo rank

224th

Liberia rank

221st

Life expectancy over time

Democratic Republic of Congo
Liberia

How they compare

Liberia currently reports 62.16 years against 61.9 years in Democratic Republic of Congo, a difference of 0.2675 years.

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

Globally, Democratic Republic of Congo ranks 224th and Liberia ranks 221st 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.