Life expectancy in Haiti
Haiti: Life expectancy was 64.94 years in 2023. ▲ Rising
Life expectancy in Haiti, 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
Haiti recorded 64.94 years for life expectancy in 2023. That is the highest value across all 74 years on record.
The figure is up 1.5% on the previous year and up 3.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, life expectancy in Haiti peaked at 64.94 years in 2023 and was at its lowest, 37.24 years, in 1950.
That places Haiti 209th 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 | 40.4 years | 37.24 years | 43.02 years | 10 |
| 1960s | 44.96 years | 42.72 years | 46.9 years | 10 |
| 1970s | 48.56 years | 47.26 years | 49.75 years | 10 |
| 1980s | 51.42 years | 49.97 years | 52.88 years | 10 |
| 1990s | 55.32 years | 53.22 years | 57.69 years | 10 |
| 2000s | 59.89 years | 58.17 years | 61.69 years | 10 |
| 2010s | 61.38 years | 45.58 years | 64.33 years | 10 |
| 2020s | 63.82 years | 62.61 years | 64.94 years | 4 |
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More health data for Haiti
- Age population, age 16, female, interpolated 117,884 (2025)
- Age population, age 17, female, interpolated 116,724 (2025)
- Population, female 6.02 million (2025)
- Age dependency ratio, old 7.4% (2025)
- Population ages 65 and above, female 326,796 (2025)
- Age population, age 16, male, interpolated 119,089 (2025)
- Age population, age 15, female, interpolated 119,027 (2025)
- Population ages 65 and above, female 5.4% (2025)
- Age population, age 14, male, interpolated 121,978 (2025)
- Age population, age 17, male, interpolated 117,934 (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is life expectancy in Haiti?
- Life expectancy in Haiti was 64.94 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 Haiti?
- The highest recorded value was 64.94 years in 2023.
- What is the lowest life expectancy recorded in Haiti?
- The lowest recorded value was 37.24 years in 1950.
- How does Haiti rank for life expectancy?
- Haiti ranks 209th out of 236 countries with data for 2023.
- Is life expectancy rising or falling in Haiti?
- Over the last ten years it is up 3.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Haiti 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.