Kazakhstan vs North Korea: Life expectancy

Kazakhstan

74.4 years

in 2023

North Korea

73.64 years

in 2023

Kazakhstan rank

130th

North Korea rank

133rd

Life expectancy over time

Kazakhstan
North Korea

How they compare

Kazakhstan currently reports 74.4 years against 73.64 years in North Korea, a difference of 0.7603 years.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Kazakhstan ahead.

Globally, Kazakhstan ranks 130th and North Korea ranks 133rd of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Kazakhstan
Life expectancy in North Korea
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.