Djibouti vs South Africa: Life expectancy

Djibouti

65.99 years

in 2023

South Africa

66.14 years

in 2023

Djibouti rank

204th

South Africa rank

201st

Life expectancy over time

Djibouti
South Africa

How they compare

South Africa currently reports 66.14 years against 65.99 years in Djibouti, a difference of 0.1522 years.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was South Africa ahead.

Globally, Djibouti ranks 204th and South Africa ranks 201st of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Djibouti
Life expectancy in South Africa
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.