Jamaica vs Western Sahara: Life expectancy

Jamaica

71.48 years

in 2023

Western Sahara

71.39 years

in 2023

Jamaica rank

158th

Western Sahara rank

160th

Life expectancy over time

Jamaica
Western Sahara

How they compare

Jamaica currently reports 71.48 years against 71.39 years in Western Sahara, a difference of 0.0939 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 Western Sahara ranks 160th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Jamaica
Life expectancy in Western Sahara
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.