Lesotho vs Somalia: Life expectancy

Lesotho

57.37 years

in 2023

Somalia

58.82 years

in 2023

Lesotho rank

234th

Somalia rank

231st

Life expectancy over time

Lesotho
Somalia

How they compare

Somalia currently reports 58.82 years against 57.37 years in Lesotho, a difference of 1.44 years.

The two have swapped places 7 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Lesotho ahead.

Globally, Lesotho ranks 234th and Somalia ranks 231st of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Lesotho
Life expectancy in Somalia
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.