Mauritania vs Uganda: Life expectancy

Mauritania

68.48 years

in 2023

Uganda

68.25 years

in 2023

Mauritania rank

182nd

Uganda rank

184th

Life expectancy over time

Mauritania
Uganda

How they compare

Mauritania currently reports 68.48 years against 68.25 years in Uganda, a difference of 0.2313 years.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Uganda ahead.

Globally, Mauritania ranks 182nd and Uganda ranks 184th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Mauritania
Life expectancy in Uganda
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.