Life expectancy in Marshall Islands
Marshall Islands: Life expectancy was 66.95 years in 2023. ▲ Rising
Life expectancy in Marshall Islands, 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
Marshall Islands recorded 66.95 years for life expectancy in 2023. That is the highest value across all 74 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.3% on the previous year and up 3.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, life expectancy in Marshall Islands peaked at 66.95 years in 2023 and was at its lowest, 52.61 years, in 1950.
That places Marshall Islands 195th 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 | 53.08 years | 52.61 years | 53.97 years | 10 |
| 1960s | 56.48 years | 54.36 years | 58.5 years | 10 |
| 1970s | 60.02 years | 58.8 years | 60.84 years | 10 |
| 1980s | 61.53 years | 60.99 years | 61.81 years | 10 |
| 1990s | 62.48 years | 61.76 years | 63.42 years | 10 |
| 2000s | 64.02 years | 63.32 years | 64.39 years | 10 |
| 2010s | 65.23 years | 64.5 years | 66.05 years | 10 |
| 2020s | 66.12 years | 65.39 years | 66.95 years | 4 |
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More health data for Marshall Islands
- Population ages 15-64, total 22,215 (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, male 6,318 (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, male 34.0% (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, total 12,298 (2025)
- Population ages 15-64, female 61.2% (2025)
- Population ages 15-64, male 11,371 (2025)
- Population ages 15-64, male 61.3% (2025)
- Population ages 65 and above, total 1,769 (2025)
- Population ages 65 and above, male 4.7% (2025)
- Population ages 65 and above, male 872 (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is life expectancy in Marshall Islands?
- Life expectancy in Marshall Islands was 66.95 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 Marshall Islands?
- The highest recorded value was 66.95 years in 2023.
- What is the lowest life expectancy recorded in Marshall Islands?
- The lowest recorded value was 52.61 years in 1950.
- How does Marshall Islands rank for life expectancy?
- Marshall Islands ranks 195th out of 236 countries with data for 2023.
- Is life expectancy rising or falling in Marshall Islands?
- Over the last ten years it is up 3.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Marshall Islands 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.