Panama vs United States: Life expectancy

Panama

79.59 years

in 2023

United States

79.3 years

in 2023

Panama rank

61st

United States rank

63rd

Life expectancy over time

Panama
United States

How they compare

Panama currently reports 79.59 years against 79.3 years in United States, a difference of 0.2894 years.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 76 shared years of data; in 1930 it was United States ahead.

Globally, Panama ranks 61st and United States ranks 63rd of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Panama
Life expectancy in United States
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.