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Life Expectancy at Birth for Israel, 1961–2024.
Latest value · 2024
83.2
Life Expectancy at Birth · years · +15.5% since 1961
Life expectancy for Israel was 83.2 in 2024, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 61 years, from 1961 to 2024. The latest year is also the highest value on record for this series. The lowest was 71.0 in 1969 (about 1.2× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to 0.23% per year.
Israel ranks 17 of 217 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 8%. The median for Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan is 76.7, so Israel sits above it. Over the last decade (2014–2024) the figure moved up 1%.
Key figures
Latest (2024)
83.2
First (1961)
72.0
Change
+15.5%
Highest
83.2
in 2024
Lowest
71.0
in 1969
Average
77.2
Annual growth (CAGR)
0.23%
Years of data
61
Recent years
| Year | years |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 83.2 |
| 2023 | 83.2 |
| 2022 | 82.7 |
| 2021 | 82.5 |
| 2020 | 82.65 |
| 2019 | 82.8 |
| 2018 | 82.8 |
| 2017 | 82.55 |
| 2016 | 82.41 |
| 2015 | 82.05 |
| 2014 | 82.15 |
| 2013 | 82.06 |
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.