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Iraq vs Venezuela: Life expectancy

Iraq
72.32 years
in 2023
Venezuela
72.51 years
in 2023
Iraq rank
148th
Venezuela rank
146th

Life expectancy over time

  • Iraq
  • Venezuela
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How they compare

Venezuela currently reports 72.51 years against 72.32 years in Iraq, a difference of 0.19 years.

Across all 74 years both countries report, Venezuela has been ahead every year.

Globally, Iraq ranks 148th and Venezuela ranks 146th 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.