Life Expectancy by country
Average life expectancy at birth (years). Shorter life expectancy reflects accumulated public-health, mental-health, and lifestyle stresses.
Global trend
Mean stress score across all countries for which data is available, over the last 12 months.
Where the pressure is concentrated
The five most-affected and five least-affected countries on this indicator right now.
Most affected
- 1South Africa66.3 years71
- 2India72.2 years44
- 3Mexico75.3 years31
- 4Brazil76.0 years27
- 5Turkey77.4 years21
Least affected
- 1Singapore83.3 years0
- 2Sweden84.1 years0
- 3New Zealand82.0 years0
- 4Norway83.2 years0
- 5South Korea83.6 years0
Full ranking
All 25 tracked countries, ordered from most to least affected. Click any country to see its full composite breakdown.
| # | Country | Raw value | Stress score | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | South Africa | 66.3 years | 71.3 | 2024-12-31 |
| 2 | India | 72.2 years | 44.4 | 2024-12-31 |
| 3 | Mexico | 75.3 years | 30.6 | 2024-12-31 |
| 4 | Brazil | 76.0 years | 27.2 | 2024-12-31 |
| 5 | Turkey | 77.4 years | 20.8 | 2024-12-31 |
| 6 | Argentina | 77.5 years | 20.3 | 2024-12-31 |
| 7 | Poland | 78.4 years | 16.3 | 2024-12-31 |
| 8 | United States | 78.9 years | 14.1 | 2024-12-31 |
| 9 | Germany | 80.8 years | 5.5 | 2024-12-31 |
| 10 | United Kingdom | 81.4 years | 2.8 | 2024-12-31 |
| 11 | Netherlands | 82.0 years | 0.2 | 2024-12-31 |
| 12 | UAE | 83.1 years | 0.0 | 2024-12-31 |
| 13 | Australia | 83.1 years | 0.0 | 2024-12-31 |
| 14 | Canada | 82.1 years | 0.0 | 2024-12-31 |
| 15 | Switzerland | 84.4 years | 0.0 | 2024-12-31 |
| 16 | Spain | 83.9 years | 0.0 | 2024-12-31 |
| 17 | France | 83.0 years | 0.0 | 2024-12-31 |
| 18 | Israel | 83.2 years | 0.0 | 2024-12-31 |
| 19 | Italy | 84.0 years | 0.0 | 2024-12-31 |
| 20 | Japan | 84.0 years | 0.0 | 2024-12-31 |
| 21 | South Korea | 83.6 years | 0.0 | 2024-12-31 |
| 22 | Norway | 83.2 years | 0.0 | 2024-12-31 |
| 23 | New Zealand | 82.0 years | 0.0 | 2024-12-31 |
| 24 | Sweden | 84.1 years | 0.0 | 2024-12-31 |
| 25 | Singapore | 83.3 years | 0.0 | 2024-12-31 |
Why it matters
Life Expectancy is a contributing indicator to the Mental meta-index, one of the five dimensions of The Human Index composite. Higher raw value = less stress.
Movements in this indicator are tracked daily and feed into every country's composite score on the next cron cycle.
Recent analysis
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Raw values are normalized to a 0–100 stress scale per the bounds documented in the codebase. See methodology for the full normalization and band-threshold derivation.