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Kiribati vs South Africa: Life expectancy

Kiribati
66.47 years
in 2023
South Africa
66.14 years
in 2023
Kiribati rank
198th
South Africa rank
201st

Life expectancy over time

  • Kiribati
  • South Africa
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How they compare

Kiribati currently reports 66.47 years against 66.14 years in South Africa, a difference of 0.3344 years.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Kiribati ahead.

Globally, Kiribati ranks 198th and South Africa ranks 201st 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
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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.