What is life expectancy in East Timor?

Life expectancy in East Timor was 67.69 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 East Timor?

The highest recorded value was 67.69 years in 2023.

What is the lowest life expectancy recorded in East Timor?

The lowest recorded value was 22.93 years in 1978.

How does East Timor rank for life expectancy?

East Timor ranks 186th out of 236 countries with data for 2023.

Is life expectancy rising or falling in East Timor?

Over the last ten years it is up 4.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.

Where does this East Timor 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.

Life expectancy in East Timor

Name: Life expectancy in East Timor
Creator: Riley (2005); Zijdeman et al. (2015); HMD (2025); UN WPP (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data
License: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)

East Timor: Life expectancy was 67.69 years in 2023. ▲ Rising

Latest (2023)

67.69 years

Change on year

up 0.5%

World rank

186th

of 236 countries

All-time high

67.69 years

in 2023

All-time low

22.93 years

in 1978

Years of data

1950–2023

Life expectancy in East Timor, 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

East Timor recorded 67.69 years for life expectancy in 2023. That is the highest value across all 74 years on record.

That represents a change of up 0.5% on the previous year and up 4.6% over ten years.

Over the whole period, life expectancy in East Timor peaked at 67.69 years in 2023 and was at its lowest, 22.93 years, in 1978.

East Timor ranks 186th of 236 countries on this measure, 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	30.55 years	29.16 years	32.02 years	10
1960s	34.48 years	32.4 years	36.8 years	10
1970s	31.13 years	22.93 years	38.97 years	10
1980s	34.68 years	30.2 years	44.8 years	10
1990s	46.99 years	45.08 years	48.97 years	10
2000s	60.89 years	58.1 years	63.27 years	10
2010s	65.13 years	63.66 years	66.5 years	10
2020s	67.04 years	66.2 years	67.69 years	4

Countries ranked near East Timor

183 Gabon 68.34 years compare
184 Uganda 68.25 years compare
185 Rwanda 67.79 years compare
187 Pakistan 67.65 years compare
188 Namibia 67.38 years compare
189 Malawi 67.35 years compare

See the full ranking of 236 places →

More health data for East Timor

Age population, age 13, female, interpolated 14,783 (2025)
Age population, age 16, female, interpolated 15,103 (2025)
Age population, age 15, male, interpolated 15,246 (2025)
Age population, age 15, female, interpolated 14,824 (2025)
Age population, age 14, male, interpolated 15,211 (2025)
Age population, age 14, female, interpolated 14,721 (2025)
Age population, age 13, male, interpolated 15,326 (2025)
Age population, age 11, male, interpolated 16,031 (2025)
Age population, age 10, male, interpolated 16,461 (2025)
Age population, age 11, female, interpolated 15,503 (2025)

All data for East Timor →

Frequently asked questions

What is life expectancy in East Timor?: Life expectancy in East Timor was 67.69 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 East Timor?: The highest recorded value was 67.69 years in 2023.
What is the lowest life expectancy recorded in East Timor?: The lowest recorded value was 22.93 years in 1978.
How does East Timor rank for life expectancy?: East Timor ranks 186th out of 236 countries with data for 2023.
Is life expectancy rising or falling in East Timor?: Over the last ten years it is up 4.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
Where does this East Timor 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

Indicator: Life expectancy
Unit: years
Source: Riley (2005); Zijdeman et al. (2015); HMD (2025); UN WPP (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 236 places, 19,452 data points, 1543–2023
Last refreshed: 06 August 2026

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.