Rwanda vs Uganda: Life expectancy

Rwanda

67.79 years

in 2023

Uganda

68.25 years

in 2023

Rwanda rank

185th

Uganda rank

184th

Life expectancy over time

Rwanda
Uganda

How they compare

Uganda currently reports 68.25 years against 67.79 years in Rwanda, a difference of 0.4671 years.

The two have swapped places 7 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Rwanda ahead.

Globally, Rwanda ranks 185th and Uganda ranks 184th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Rwanda
Life expectancy in Uganda
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.