Nauru vs Sierra Leone: Life expectancy

Nauru

62.11 years

in 2023

Sierra Leone

61.79 years

in 2023

Nauru rank

222nd

Sierra Leone rank

225th

Life expectancy over time

Nauru
Sierra Leone

How they compare

Nauru currently reports 62.11 years against 61.79 years in Sierra Leone, a difference of 0.3236 years.

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

Globally, Nauru ranks 222nd and Sierra Leone ranks 225th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Nauru
Life expectancy in Sierra Leone
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.