Egypt vs Vanuatu: Life expectancy

Egypt

71.63 years

in 2023

Vanuatu

71.48 years

in 2023

Egypt rank

157th

Vanuatu rank

159th

Life expectancy over time

Egypt
Vanuatu

How they compare

Egypt currently reports 71.63 years against 71.48 years in Vanuatu, a difference of 0.1566 years.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Vanuatu ahead.

Globally, Egypt ranks 157th and Vanuatu ranks 159th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Egypt
Life expectancy in Vanuatu
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.