Cook Islands vs Nicaragua: Life expectancy

Cook Islands

75.28 years

in 2023

Nicaragua

74.95 years

in 2023

Cook Islands rank

119th

Nicaragua rank

122nd

Life expectancy over time

Cook Islands
Nicaragua

How they compare

Cook Islands currently reports 75.28 years against 74.95 years in Nicaragua, a difference of 0.335 years.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Nicaragua ahead.

Globally, Cook Islands ranks 119th and Nicaragua ranks 122nd of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Cook Islands
Life expectancy in Nicaragua
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.