Ethiopia vs Tanzania: Life expectancy

Ethiopia

67.31 years

in 2023

Tanzania

67 years

in 2023

Ethiopia rank

191st

Tanzania rank

194th

Life expectancy over time

Ethiopia
Tanzania

How they compare

Ethiopia currently reports 67.31 years against 67 years in Tanzania, a difference of 0.3197 years.

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

Globally, Ethiopia ranks 191st and Tanzania ranks 194th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Ethiopia
Life expectancy in Tanzania
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.