Kiribati vs Marshall Islands: Life expectancy

Kiribati

66.47 years

in 2023

Marshall Islands

66.95 years

in 2023

Kiribati rank

198th

Marshall Islands rank

195th

Life expectancy over time

Kiribati
Marshall Islands

How they compare

Marshall Islands currently reports 66.95 years against 66.47 years in Kiribati, a difference of 0.4723 years.

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

Globally, Kiribati ranks 198th and Marshall Islands ranks 195th of 236 countries.

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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.