Cote d'Ivoire vs Sierra Leone: Life expectancy

Cote d'Ivoire
61.94 years
in 2023
Sierra Leone
61.79 years
in 2023
Cote d'Ivoire rank
223rd
Sierra Leone rank
225th

Life expectancy over time

  • Cote d'Ivoire
  • Sierra Leone
0204060193119772023

How they compare

Cote d'Ivoire currently reports 61.94 years against 61.79 years in Sierra Leone, a difference of 0.158 years.

Across all 74 years both countries report, Cote d'Ivoire has been ahead every year.

Globally, Cote d'Ivoire ranks 223rd and Sierra Leone ranks 225th 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
Last refreshed

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.