Congo vs Gambia: Life expectancy

Congo

65.77 years

in 2023

Gambia

65.86 years

in 2023

Congo rank

206th

Gambia rank

205th

Life expectancy over time

Congo
Gambia

How they compare

Gambia currently reports 65.86 years against 65.77 years in Congo, a difference of 0.0883 years.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Congo ahead.

Globally, Congo ranks 206th and Gambia ranks 205th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Congo
Life expectancy in Gambia
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.