Egypt vs Jamaica: Life expectancy

Egypt

71.63 years

in 2023

Jamaica

71.48 years

in 2023

Egypt rank

157th

Jamaica rank

158th

Life expectancy over time

Egypt
Jamaica

How they compare

Egypt currently reports 71.63 years against 71.48 years in Jamaica, a difference of 0.1546 years.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 97 shared years of data; in 1927 it was Jamaica ahead.

Globally, Egypt ranks 157th and Jamaica ranks 158th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Egypt
Life expectancy in Jamaica
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.