India vs Samoa: Life expectancy

India

72 years

in 2023

Samoa

71.7 years

in 2023

India rank

152nd

Samoa rank

155th

Life expectancy over time

India
Samoa

How they compare

India currently reports 72 years against 71.7 years in Samoa, a difference of 0.3044 years.

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

Globally, India ranks 152nd and Samoa ranks 155th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in India
Life expectancy in Samoa
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.