Nicaragua vs Vietnam: Life expectancy

Nicaragua

74.95 years

in 2023

Vietnam

74.59 years

in 2023

Nicaragua rank

122nd

Vietnam rank

125th

Life expectancy over time

Nicaragua
Vietnam

How they compare

Nicaragua currently reports 74.95 years against 74.59 years in Vietnam, a difference of 0.3585 years.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Vietnam ahead.

Globally, Nicaragua ranks 122nd and Vietnam ranks 125th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Nicaragua
Life expectancy in Vietnam
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.