Sub-Saharan Africa Compared by Health > Life expectancy at birth > Total > Years
DEFINITION:
Life expectancy at birth indicates the number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life.
CONTENTS
# | COUNTRY | AMOUNT | DATE | GRAPH | HISTORY |
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1 | Mauritius | 73.02 years | 2005 | ||
2 | Seychelles | 72.95 years | 2002 | ||
3 | Cape Verde | 70.71 years | 2005 | ||
4 | Sao Tome and Principe | 63.49 years | 2005 | ||
5 | Comoros | 62.64 years | 2005 | ||
6 | Ghana | 57.48 years | 2005 | ||
7 | The Gambia | 56.79 years | 2005 | ||
8 | Sudan | 56.66 years | 2005 | ||
9 | Senegal | 56.45 years | 2005 | ||
10 | Madagascar | 55.82 years | 2005 | ||
11 | Togo | 55.1 years | 2005 | ||
12 | Benin | 54.99 years | 2005 | ||
13 | Eritrea | 54.9 years | 2005 | ||
14 | Guinea | 54.05 years | 2005 | ||
15 | Gabon | 53.83 years | 2005 | ||
16 | Mauritania | 53.66 years | 2005 | ||
17 | Djibouti | 53.39 years | 2005 | ||
18 | Uganda | 49.95 years | 2005 | ||
19 | Kenya | 48.99 years | 2005 | ||
20 | Mali | 48.62 years | 2005 | ||
21 | Burkina Faso | 48.48 years | 2005 | ||
22 | Somalia | 47.73 years | 2005 | ||
23 | South Africa | 47.66 years | 2005 | ||
24 | Namibia | 46.93 years | 2005 | ||
25 | Tanzania | 46.3 years | 2005 | ||
26 | Cote d'Ivoire | 46.18 years | 2005 | ||
27 | Cameroon | 46.06 years | 2005 | ||
28 | Guinea-Bissau | 45.12 years | 2005 | ||
29 | Niger | 44.93 years | 2005 | ||
30 | Burundi | 44.65 years | 2005 | ||
31 | Rwanda | 44.12 years | 2005 | ||
32 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 44.03 years | 2005 | ||
33 | Chad | 44.02 years | 2005 | ||
34 | Nigeria | 43.83 years | 2005 | ||
35 | Ethiopia | 42.65 years | 2005 | ||
36 | Liberia | 42.47 years | 2005 | ||
37 | Equatorial Guinea | 42.28 years | 2005 | ||
38 | Mozambique | 41.81 years | 2005 | ||
39 | Swaziland | 41.46 years | 2005 | ||
40 | Angola | 41.42 years | 2005 | ||
41 | Sierra Leone | 41.36 years | 2005 | ||
42 | Malawi | 40.52 years | 2005 | ||
43 | Central African Republic | 39.43 years | 2005 | ||
44 | Zambia | 38.41 years | 2005 | ||
45 | Zimbabwe | 37.26 years | 2005 | ||
46 | Lesotho | 35.16 years | 2005 | ||
47 | Botswana | 34.97 years | 2005 |