Jamaica vs Samoa: Life expectancy

Jamaica

71.48 years

in 2023

Samoa

71.7 years

in 2023

Jamaica rank

158th

Samoa rank

155th

Life expectancy over time

Jamaica
Samoa

How they compare

Samoa currently reports 71.7 years against 71.48 years in Jamaica, a difference of 0.2193 years.

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

Globally, Jamaica ranks 158th and Samoa ranks 155th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Jamaica
Life expectancy in Samoa
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.