Life expectancy at age 15 in Yemen
Yemen: Life expectancy at age 15 was 79.65 years in 2100. ▲ Rising
Life expectancy at age 15 in Yemen, 1950–2100
Source: Human Mortality Database (2025); UN, World Population Prospects (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data. Measured in years.
Analysis
In 2100, life expectancy at age 15 in Yemen stood at 79.65 years. That is the highest value across all 151 years on record.
That represents a change of up 0.1% on the previous year and up 1.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, life expectancy at age 15 in Yemen peaked at 79.65 years in 2100 and was at its lowest, 58.46 years, in 1963.
Yemen ranks 190th of 236 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 151 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 59.35 years | 58.82 years | 59.96 years | 10 |
| 1960s | 60.01 years | 58.46 years | 61.64 years | 10 |
| 1970s | 63.42 years | 61.96 years | 64.67 years | 10 |
| 1980s | 66.17 years | 64.39 years | 67.67 years | 10 |
| 1990s | 68.61 years | 67.88 years | 69.54 years | 10 |
| 2000s | 70.71 years | 69.74 years | 71.5 years | 10 |
| 2010s | 71.13 years | 69.64 years | 71.97 years | 10 |
| 2020s | 71.96 years | 69.34 years | 72.95 years | 10 |
| 2030s | 73.33 years | 73.02 years | 73.64 years | 10 |
| 2040s | 74.05 years | 73.72 years | 74.42 years | 10 |
| 2050s | 74.93 years | 74.52 years | 75.33 years | 10 |
| 2060s | 75.84 years | 75.41 years | 76.28 years | 10 |
| 2070s | 76.85 years | 76.38 years | 77.32 years | 10 |
| 2080s | 77.9 years | 77.42 years | 78.41 years | 10 |
| 2090s | 79.03 years | 78.53 years | 79.53 years | 10 |
| 2100s | 79.65 years | 79.65 years | 79.65 years | 1 |
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More health data for Yemen
- Age population, age 08, male, interpolated 570,800 (2025)
- Population, male 50.7% (2025)
- Age population, age 06, female, interpolated 578,203 (2025)
- Age population, age 06, male, interpolated 607,475 (2025)
- Age population, age 07, female, interpolated 561,315 (2025)
- Age population, age 07, male, interpolated 589,338 (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, total 17.14 million (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, male 41.5% (2025)
- Age population, age 08, female, interpolated 543,962 (2025)
- Age population, age 11, male, interpolated 512,258 (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is life expectancy at age 15 in Yemen?
- Life expectancy at age 15 in Yemen was 79.65 years in 2100, according to Human Mortality Database (2025); UN, World Population Prospects (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data.
- What is the highest life expectancy at age 15 recorded in Yemen?
- The highest recorded value was 79.65 years in 2100.
- What is the lowest life expectancy at age 15 recorded in Yemen?
- The lowest recorded value was 58.46 years in 1963.
- How does Yemen rank for life expectancy at age 15?
- Yemen ranks 190th out of 236 countries with data for 2100.
- Is life expectancy at age 15 rising or falling in Yemen?
- Over the last ten years it is up 1.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Yemen data come from?
- The figures come from Human Mortality Database (2025); UN, World Population Prospects (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data, published as part of Life expectancy at age 15. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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The total period life expectancy at age 15, in a given year.