Libya vs Sao Tome and Principe: Life expectancy

Libya

69.34 years

in 2023

Sao Tome and Principe

69.72 years

in 2023

Libya rank

174th

Sao Tome and Principe rank

173rd

Life expectancy over time

Libya
Sao Tome and Principe

How they compare

Sao Tome and Principe currently reports 69.72 years against 69.34 years in Libya, a difference of 0.3793 years.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Sao Tome and Principe ahead.

Globally, Libya ranks 174th and Sao Tome and Principe ranks 173rd 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.