Rwanda vs East Timor: Life expectancy

Rwanda

67.79 years

in 2023

East Timor

67.69 years

in 2023

Rwanda rank

185th

East Timor rank

186th

Life expectancy over time

Rwanda
East Timor

How they compare

Rwanda currently reports 67.79 years against 67.69 years in East Timor, a difference of 0.0958 years.

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

Globally, Rwanda ranks 185th and East Timor ranks 186th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Rwanda
Life expectancy in East Timor
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.