Life expectancy in Angola
Angola: Life expectancy was 64.62 years in 2023. ▲ Rising
Life expectancy in Angola, 1940–2023
Source: Riley (2005); Zijdeman et al. (2015); HMD (2025); UN WPP (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data. Measured in years.
Analysis
Angola recorded 64.62 years for life expectancy in 2023. That is the highest value across all 75 years on record.
The figure is up 0.6% on the previous year and up 8.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, life expectancy in Angola peaked at 64.62 years in 2023 and was at its lowest, 26.98 years, in 1940.
Angola ranks 210th of 236 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 75 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 26.98 years | 26.98 years | 26.98 years | 1 |
| 1950s | 36.76 years | 35.87 years | 37.69 years | 10 |
| 1960s | 38.03 years | 36.9 years | 39.33 years | 10 |
| 1970s | 40.87 years | 39.69 years | 41.91 years | 10 |
| 1980s | 42.11 years | 40.79 years | 42.86 years | 10 |
| 1990s | 44.42 years | 41.85 years | 46.69 years | 10 |
| 2000s | 51.35 years | 46.5 years | 56.23 years | 10 |
| 2010s | 60.48 years | 57.24 years | 63.05 years | 10 |
| 2020s | 63.73 years | 62.96 years | 64.62 years | 4 |
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More health data for Angola
- Age population, age 13, female, interpolated 484,222 (2025)
- Population ages 65 and above, male 2.6% (2025)
- Population ages 65 and above, total 1.13 million (2025)
- Population ages 65 and above 2.9% (2025)
- Age population, age 14, female, interpolated 467,884 (2025)
- Population ages 15-64, total 20.69 million (2025)
- Age population, age 13, male, interpolated 486,645 (2025)
- Population ages 15-64, male 10.17 million (2025)
- Age population, age 12, female, interpolated 500,351 (2025)
- Population ages 15-64, female 53.4% (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is life expectancy in Angola?
- Life expectancy in Angola was 64.62 years in 2023, according to Riley (2005); Zijdeman et al. (2015); HMD (2025); UN WPP (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data.
- What is the highest life expectancy recorded in Angola?
- The highest recorded value was 64.62 years in 2023.
- What is the lowest life expectancy recorded in Angola?
- The lowest recorded value was 26.98 years in 1940.
- How does Angola rank for life expectancy?
- Angola ranks 210th out of 236 countries with data for 2023.
- Is life expectancy rising or falling in Angola?
- Over the last ten years it is up 8.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Angola data come from?
- The figures come from Riley (2005); Zijdeman et al. (2015); HMD (2025); UN WPP (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data, published as part of Life expectancy. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
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.