Life expectancy in Guinea-Bissau
Guinea-Bissau: Life expectancy was 64.08 years in 2023. ▲ Rising
Life expectancy in Guinea-Bissau, 1950–2023
Source: Riley (2005); Zijdeman et al. (2015); HMD (2025); UN WPP (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data. Measured in years.
Analysis
In 2023, life expectancy in Guinea-Bissau stood at 64.08 years. That is the highest value across all 74 years on record.
The figure is up 0.8% on the previous year and up 8.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, life expectancy in Guinea-Bissau peaked at 64.08 years in 2023 and was at its lowest, 35.64 years, in 1963.
That places Guinea-Bissau 212th out of 236 countries with data for 2023, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 74 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 36.53 years | 35.74 years | 37.34 years | 10 |
| 1960s | 36.68 years | 35.64 years | 38.03 years | 10 |
| 1970s | 40.53 years | 37.26 years | 43.24 years | 10 |
| 1980s | 45.09 years | 43.57 years | 46.61 years | 10 |
| 1990s | 47.92 years | 46.89 years | 48.77 years | 10 |
| 2000s | 53.17 years | 50.56 years | 56.3 years | 10 |
| 2010s | 59.69 years | 57 years | 62.16 years | 10 |
| 2020s | 62.67 years | 61.34 years | 64.08 years | 4 |
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More health data for Guinea-Bissau
- Age population, age 12, male, interpolated 27,955 (2025)
- Age population, age 15, female, interpolated 25,481 (2025)
- Age population, age 14, male, interpolated 26,671 (2025)
- Age population, age 14, female, interpolated 26,132 (2025)
- Age population, age 13, male, interpolated 27,360 (2025)
- Age population, age 13, female, interpolated 26,778 (2025)
- Age population, age 11, female, interpolated 27,671 (2025)
- Age population, age 10, female, interpolated 27,822 (2025)
- Age population, age 10, male, interpolated 28,500 (2025)
- Age population, age 15, male, interpolated 25,971 (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is life expectancy in Guinea-Bissau?
- Life expectancy in Guinea-Bissau was 64.08 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 Guinea-Bissau?
- The highest recorded value was 64.08 years in 2023.
- What is the lowest life expectancy recorded in Guinea-Bissau?
- The lowest recorded value was 35.64 years in 1963.
- How does Guinea-Bissau rank for life expectancy?
- Guinea-Bissau ranks 212th out of 236 countries with data for 2023.
- Is life expectancy rising or falling in Guinea-Bissau?
- Over the last ten years it is up 8.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Guinea-Bissau 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.