Iran vs Sri Lanka: Life expectancy

Iran

77.65 years

in 2023

Sri Lanka

77.48 years

in 2023

Iran rank

82nd

Sri Lanka rank

84th

Life expectancy over time

Iran
Sri Lanka

How they compare

Iran currently reports 77.65 years against 77.48 years in Sri Lanka, a difference of 0.1717 years.

The two have swapped places 7 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Sri Lanka ahead.

Globally, Iran ranks 82nd and Sri Lanka ranks 84th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Iran
Life expectancy in Sri Lanka
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.