Russia vs Tonga: Life expectancy

Russia

73.15 years

in 2023

Tonga

72.89 years

in 2023

Russia rank

138th

Tonga rank

140th

Life expectancy over time

Russia
Tonga

How they compare

Russia currently reports 73.15 years against 72.89 years in Tonga, a difference of 0.2594 years.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Russia ahead.

Globally, Russia ranks 138th and Tonga ranks 140th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Russia
Life expectancy in Tonga
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.