Congo vs Palestine: Life expectancy

Congo

65.77 years

in 2023

Palestine

65.17 years

in 2023

Congo rank

206th

Palestine rank

208th

Life expectancy over time

Congo
Palestine

How they compare

Congo currently reports 65.77 years against 65.17 years in Palestine, a difference of 0.6017 years.

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

Globally, Congo ranks 206th and Palestine ranks 208th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Congo
Life expectancy in Palestine
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.