Lowest Life Expectancy Countries in 2024
The countries with lowest life expectancy in 2024 are illustrated in this article. Life expectancy of a country indicates it’s overall health, economics stability and quality of life. This article is based on an UN report : United Nation world population prospects 2024. The report provides the overall life expectancy age for each country. It also separates life expectancy by female and male genders.
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What is the average life expectancy age in the world?
Average life expectancy age around the world has shown considerable improvement from 46.4 years in 1950 to 73.3 years in 2024.
Top Countries With Lowest Life Expectancy In 2024
One careful look at the above table provides that all the twenty countries with lowest expectancy are from Africa. This is due to a combination of many reasons. These include prevailing poverty, inadequate health care services, and unhygienic living conditions. Such conditions lead to deaths from infectious diseases, especially in children.
Country with the lowest life expectancy
Nigeria is the country with lowest life expectancy in the world with around 54.6 years in 2024. Followed by Chad (55.2), Central African Republic (57.7), South Sudan (57.7_ and Lesotho (57.8).
The most important reason for this low life expectancy is extreme poverty and inadequate health care infrastructure. We hope that over time development will occur in these nations. They will then reach the level of the world average life expectancy.
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