Syria vs Tajikistan: Life expectancy

Syria

72.12 years

in 2023

Tajikistan

71.79 years

in 2023

Syria rank

150th

Tajikistan rank

153rd

Life expectancy over time

Syria
Tajikistan

How they compare

Syria currently reports 72.12 years against 71.79 years in Tajikistan, a difference of 0.33 years.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Tajikistan ahead.

Globally, Syria ranks 150th and Tajikistan ranks 153rd of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Syria
Life expectancy in Tajikistan
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.