Libya vs Yemen: Life expectancy

Libya

69.34 years

in 2023

Yemen

69.3 years

in 2023

Libya rank

174th

Yemen rank

175th

Life expectancy over time

Libya
Yemen

How they compare

Libya currently reports 69.34 years against 69.3 years in Yemen, a difference of 0.0437 years.

Across all 74 years both countries report, Libya has been ahead every year.

Globally, Libya ranks 174th and Yemen ranks 175th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Libya
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.