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Syrian Arab Republic — Life expectancy
Life Expectancy at Birth for Syrian Arab Republic, 1960–2024.
Latest value · 2024
72.6
Life Expectancy at Birth · years · +37.6% since 1960
Life expectancy for Syrian Arab Republic was 72.6 in 2024, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 65 years, from 1960 to 2024. The highest recorded value was 73.5 in 2010. The lowest was 52.7 in 1960 (about 1.4× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to 0.50% per year.
Syrian Arab Republic ranks 130 of 217 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 60%. The median for Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan is 76.7, so Syrian Arab Republic sits below it. It peaked in 2010 and has fallen 1% since. Over the last decade (2014–2024) the figure moved up 11%.
Key figures
Latest (2024)
72.6
First (1960)
52.7
Change
+37.6%
Highest
73.5
in 2010
Lowest
52.7
in 1960
Average
66.7
Annual growth (CAGR)
0.50%
Years of data
65
Recent years
| Year | years |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 72.56 |
| 2023 | 72.12 |
| 2022 | 72.79 |
| 2021 | 72.42 |
| 2020 | 71.94 |
| 2019 | 70.97 |
| 2018 | 67.37 |
| 2017 | 65.65 |
| 2016 | 65.19 |
| 2015 | 63.27 |
| 2014 | 65.49 |
| 2013 | 65.15 |
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.