Eritrea vs Gabon: Life expectancy

Eritrea

68.62 years

in 2023

Gabon

68.34 years

in 2023

Eritrea rank

180th

Gabon rank

183rd

Life expectancy over time

Eritrea
Gabon

How they compare

Eritrea currently reports 68.62 years against 68.34 years in Gabon, a difference of 0.2872 years.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Gabon ahead.

Globally, Eritrea ranks 180th and Gabon ranks 183rd of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Eritrea
Life expectancy in Gabon
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.