Kenya vs Mozambique: Life expectancy

Kenya

63.65 years

in 2023

Mozambique

63.61 years

in 2023

Kenya rank

216th

Mozambique rank

218th

Life expectancy over time

Kenya
Mozambique

How they compare

Kenya currently reports 63.65 years against 63.61 years in Mozambique, a difference of 0.0348 years.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Mozambique ahead.

Globally, Kenya ranks 216th and Mozambique ranks 218th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Kenya
Life expectancy in Mozambique
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.