Nepal vs Turkmenistan: Life expectancy

Nepal

70.35 years

in 2023

Turkmenistan

70.07 years

in 2023

Nepal rank

167th

Turkmenistan rank

169th

Life expectancy over time

Nepal
Turkmenistan

How they compare

Nepal currently reports 70.35 years against 70.07 years in Turkmenistan, a difference of 0.281 years.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Turkmenistan ahead.

Globally, Nepal ranks 167th and Turkmenistan ranks 169th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Nepal
Life expectancy in Turkmenistan
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.