Guatemala vs Iraq: Life expectancy

Guatemala

72.6 years

in 2023

Iraq

72.32 years

in 2023

Guatemala rank

145th

Iraq rank

148th

Life expectancy over time

Guatemala
Iraq

How they compare

Guatemala currently reports 72.6 years against 72.32 years in Iraq, a difference of 0.2781 years.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Guatemala ahead.

Globally, Guatemala ranks 145th and Iraq ranks 148th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Guatemala
Life expectancy in Iraq
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.