India vs Syria: Life expectancy

India

72 years

in 2023

Syria

72.12 years

in 2023

India rank

152nd

Syria rank

150th

Life expectancy over time

India
Syria

How they compare

Syria currently reports 72.12 years against 72 years in India, a difference of 0.1175 years.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Syria ahead.

Globally, India ranks 152nd and Syria ranks 150th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in India
Life expectancy in Syria
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.