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Bangladesh — Life expectancy
Life Expectancy at Birth for Bangladesh, 1960–2024.
Latest value · 2024
74.9
Life Expectancy at Birth · years · +70.4% since 1960
Life expectancy for Bangladesh was 74.9 in 2024, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 65 years, from 1960 to 2024. The latest year is also the highest value on record for this series. The lowest was 26.5 in 1971 (about 2.8× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to 0.84% per year.
Bangladesh ranks 107 of 217 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 49%. The median for South Asia is 74.9, so Bangladesh sits level with it. Over the last decade (2014–2024) the figure moved up 7%.
Key figures
Latest (2024)
74.9
First (1960)
44.0
Change
+70.4%
Highest
74.9
in 2024
Lowest
26.5
in 1971
Average
58.1
Annual growth (CAGR)
0.84%
Years of data
65
Recent years
| Year | years |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 74.93 |
| 2023 | 74.67 |
| 2022 | 74.27 |
| 2021 | 71.1 |
| 2020 | 71.42 |
| 2019 | 72.63 |
| 2018 | 72.12 |
| 2017 | 71.61 |
| 2016 | 71.08 |
| 2015 | 70.54 |
| 2014 | 70.02 |
| 2013 | 69.49 |
Reading this correctly. Number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of birth stayed the same throughout its life. Figures are in years. Comparing this series with a different measure of the same concept (for example a nominal figure against a purchasing-power-parity figure) will give misleading results.
Related data
Source. World Bank Open Data, indicator
SP.DYN.LE00.IN — Life Expectancy at Birth. Data licensed under CC BY 4.0. Values are reproduced as published; this page computes the summary statistics (change, CAGR, extremes) from the underlying annual series. View the original dataset on data.worldbank.org.