Laos vs Yemen: Life expectancy

Laos

68.96 years

in 2023

Yemen

69.3 years

in 2023

Laos rank

178th

Yemen rank

175th

Life expectancy over time

Laos
Yemen

How they compare

Yemen currently reports 69.3 years against 68.96 years in Laos, a difference of 0.3315 years.

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

Globally, Laos ranks 178th and Yemen ranks 175th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Laos
Life expectancy in Yemen
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.