Somalia vs South Sudan: Life expectancy

Somalia

58.82 years

in 2023

South Sudan

57.62 years

in 2023

Somalia rank

231st

South Sudan rank

232nd

Life expectancy over time

Somalia
South Sudan

How they compare

Somalia currently reports 58.82 years against 57.62 years in South Sudan, a difference of 1.2 years.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Somalia ahead.

Globally, Somalia ranks 231st and South Sudan ranks 232nd of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Somalia
Life expectancy in South Sudan
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.