Guyana vs Solomon Islands: Life expectancy

Guyana

70.18 years

in 2023

Solomon Islands

70.53 years

in 2023

Guyana rank

168th

Solomon Islands rank

166th

Life expectancy over time

Guyana
Solomon Islands

How they compare

Solomon Islands currently reports 70.53 years against 70.18 years in Guyana, a difference of 0.3475 years.

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

Globally, Guyana ranks 168th and Solomon Islands ranks 166th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Guyana
Life expectancy in Solomon Islands
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.