Kenya vs Zimbabwe: Life expectancy

Kenya

63.65 years

in 2023

Zimbabwe

62.77 years

in 2023

Kenya rank

216th

Zimbabwe rank

219th

Life expectancy over time

Kenya
Zimbabwe

How they compare

Kenya currently reports 63.65 years against 62.77 years in Zimbabwe, a difference of 0.8711 years.

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

Globally, Kenya ranks 216th and Zimbabwe ranks 219th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Kenya
Life expectancy in Zimbabwe
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.