Jamaica vs Vanuatu: Life expectancy

Jamaica

71.48 years

in 2023

Vanuatu

71.48 years

in 2023

Jamaica rank

158th

Vanuatu rank

159th

Life expectancy over time

Jamaica
Vanuatu

How they compare

Jamaica currently reports 71.48 years against 71.48 years in Vanuatu, a difference of 0.002 years.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Jamaica ahead.

Globally, Jamaica ranks 158th and Vanuatu ranks 159th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Jamaica
Life expectancy in Vanuatu
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.