Cuba vs Slovakia: Life expectancy

Cuba

78.09 years

in 2023

Slovakia

78.34 years

in 2023

Cuba rank

74th

Slovakia rank

72nd

Life expectancy over time

Cuba
Slovakia

How they compare

Slovakia currently reports 78.34 years against 78.09 years in Cuba, a difference of 0.2559 years.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 75 shared years of data; in 1930 it was Slovakia ahead.

Globally, Cuba ranks 74th and Slovakia ranks 72nd of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Cuba
Life expectancy in Slovakia
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.