Statizoid

Iraq vs Syria: Life expectancy

Iraq
72.32 years
in 2023
Syria
72.12 years
in 2023
Iraq rank
148th
Syria rank
150th

Life expectancy over time

  • Iraq
  • Syria
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How they compare

Iraq currently reports 72.32 years against 72.12 years in Syria, a difference of 0.2041 years.

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

Globally, Iraq ranks 148th and Syria ranks 150th 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
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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.