Cook Islands vs Mexico: Life expectancy

Cook Islands

75.28 years

in 2023

Mexico

75.07 years

in 2023

Cook Islands rank

119th

Mexico rank

121st

Life expectancy over time

Cook Islands
Mexico

How they compare

Cook Islands currently reports 75.28 years against 75.07 years in Mexico, a difference of 0.2128 years.

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

Globally, Cook Islands ranks 119th and Mexico ranks 121st of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Cook Islands
Life expectancy in Mexico
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.