World life expectancy for 2022 was 72.00, a 0.94% increase from 2021.
World life expectancy for 2021 was 71.33, a 1.27% decline from 2020.
World life expectancy for 2020 was 72.24, a 1.01% decline from 2019.
World life expectancy for 2019 was 72.98, a 0.27% increase from 2018.
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.