Iraq vs Saint Kitts and Nevis: Life expectancy

Iraq
72.32 years
in 2023
Saint Kitts and Nevis
72.14 years
in 2023
Iraq rank
148th
Saint Kitts and Nevis rank
149th

Life expectancy over time

  • Iraq
  • Saint Kitts and Nevis
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How they compare

Iraq currently reports 72.32 years against 72.14 years in Saint Kitts and Nevis, a difference of 0.1795 years.

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

Globally, Iraq ranks 148th and Saint Kitts and Nevis ranks 149th of 236 countries.

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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

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.