Mexico vs Nicaragua: Life expectancy

Mexico

75.07 years

in 2023

Nicaragua

74.95 years

in 2023

Mexico rank

121st

Nicaragua rank

122nd

Life expectancy over time

Mexico
Nicaragua

How they compare

Mexico currently reports 75.07 years against 74.95 years in Nicaragua, a difference of 0.1222 years.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 77 shared years of data; in 1920 it was Mexico ahead.

Globally, Mexico ranks 121st and Nicaragua ranks 122nd of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Mexico
Life expectancy in Nicaragua
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.