Countries in Asia by life expectancy

Countries in Asia by life expectancy, World Bank, 2024

#	Country	Years	Region
1	Kuwait	84.6	Western Asia
2	Japan	84.0	Eastern Asia
3	South Korea	83.6	Eastern Asia
4	Singapore	83.3	South-Eastern Asia
5	Israel	83.2	Western Asia
6	United Arab Emirates	83.1	Western Asia
7	Qatar	82.5	Western Asia
8	Cyprus	81.8	Western Asia
9	Bahrain	81.4	Western Asia
10	Maldives	81.3	Southern Asia
11	Oman	80.2	Western Asia
12	Saudi Arabia	79.0	Western Asia
13	Armenia	78.3	Western Asia
=14	China	78.0	Eastern Asia
=14	Jordan	78.0	Western Asia
=16	Iran	77.9	Southern Asia
=16	Lebanon	77.9	Western Asia
18	Sri Lanka	77.7	Southern Asia
19	Turkey	77.4	Western Asia
20	Malaysia	76.8	South-Eastern Asia
21	Thailand	76.6	South-Eastern Asia
22	Brunei	75.5	South-Eastern Asia
23	Bangladesh	74.9	Southern Asia
=24	Georgia	74.7	Western Asia
=24	Vietnam	74.7	South-Eastern Asia
26	Azerbaijan	74.6	Western Asia
27	Kazakhstan	74.5	Central Asia
28	North Korea	73.7	Eastern Asia
29	Bhutan	73.3	Southern Asia
30	Syria	72.6	Western Asia
31	Uzbekistan	72.5	Central Asia
=32	Iraq	72.4	Western Asia
=32	Kyrgyzstan	72.4	Central Asia
=32	Mongolia	72.4	Eastern Asia
35	India	72.2	Southern Asia
36	Tajikistan	71.9	Central Asia
37	Indonesia	71.3	South-Eastern Asia
38	Cambodia	70.8	South-Eastern Asia
39	Nepal	70.6	Southern Asia
40	Turkmenistan	70.2	Central Asia
41	Philippines	69.9	South-Eastern Asia
42	Yemen	69.4	Western Asia
43	Laos	69.2	South-Eastern Asia
44	Timor-Leste	67.9	South-Eastern Asia
45	Pakistan	67.8	Southern Asia
46	Myanmar	67.1	South-Eastern Asia
47	Afghanistan	66.3	Southern Asia

No World Bank figure for Taiwan.

Territories and other places

Not ranked: dependencies of the states above, places whose status is disputed. Highest first.

Place	Years	Status
Hong Kong	85.4	Territory of China
Macao	83.3	Territory of China
Palestine	69.2	Status disputed

Questions

Which country in Asia has the highest life expectancy?

Kuwait has the highest life expectancy in Asia: 84.6 years (2024). Next come Japan (84.0 years) and South Korea (83.6 years).

Which country in Asia has the lowest life expectancy?

Afghanistan, with 66.3 years (2024).

What is the typical life expectancy of a country in Asia?

The median of the 47 countries in Asia is 74.7 years: half are above it, half below. The median, not the average, because a few countries at the top would drag an average far above almost everyone.

Where do the figures come from?

Life expectancy at birth: the years a newborn would live if the death rates of the year stayed the same all its life. Source: World Bank, 2024. Only independent states are ranked; territories are listed separately. A country’s continent follows Natural Earth; the handful of island states it files under the open ocean are placed by their UN subregion.

Source: World Bank (CC BY 4.0). Figures more than 5 years older than the newest are left out rather than shown beside current ones. Countries sharing a value share a rank. All sources.