Myanmar vs Zambia: Life expectancy

Myanmar

66.89 years

in 2023

Zambia

66.35 years

in 2023

Myanmar rank

196th

Zambia rank

199th

Life expectancy over time

Myanmar
Zambia

How they compare

Myanmar currently reports 66.89 years against 66.35 years in Zambia, a difference of 0.5403 years.

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

Globally, Myanmar ranks 196th and Zambia ranks 199th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Myanmar
Life expectancy in Zambia
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.