Congo vs Ghana: Life expectancy

Congo
65.77 years
in 2023
Ghana
65.5 years
in 2023
Congo rank
206th
Ghana rank
207th

Life expectancy over time

  • Congo
  • Ghana
0204060192119722023

How they compare

Congo currently reports 65.77 years against 65.5 years in Ghana, a difference of 0.2741 years.

The two have swapped places 7 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Ghana ahead.

Globally, Congo ranks 206th and Ghana ranks 207th 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.