Philippines vs Sao Tome and Principe: Life expectancy

Philippines

69.83 years

in 2023

Sao Tome and Principe

69.72 years

in 2023

Philippines rank

172nd

Sao Tome and Principe rank

173rd

Life expectancy over time

Philippines
Sao Tome and Principe

How they compare

Philippines currently reports 69.83 years against 69.72 years in Sao Tome and Principe, a difference of 0.1145 years.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Philippines ahead.

Globally, Philippines ranks 172nd and Sao Tome and Principe ranks 173rd of 236 countries.

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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.