Egypt vs Western Sahara: Life expectancy

Egypt
71.63 years
in 2023
Western Sahara
71.39 years
in 2023
Egypt rank
157th
Western Sahara rank
160th

Life expectancy over time

  • Egypt
  • Western Sahara
020406080192719752023

How they compare

Egypt currently reports 71.63 years against 71.39 years in Western Sahara, a difference of 0.2485 years.

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

Globally, Egypt ranks 157th and Western Sahara ranks 160th 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
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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.