Tanzania vs Tuvalu: Life expectancy

Tanzania

67 years

in 2023

Tuvalu

67.1 years

in 2023

Tanzania rank

194th

Tuvalu rank

193rd

Life expectancy over time

Tanzania
Tuvalu

How they compare

Tuvalu currently reports 67.1 years against 67 years in Tanzania, a difference of 0.1096 years.

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

Globally, Tanzania ranks 194th and Tuvalu ranks 193rd of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Tanzania
Life expectancy in Tuvalu
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.