🇲🇴Macao SAR, China mortality (2024)

Macao SAR, China's life expectancy is 83.3 as of 2024 — the number of years a newborn would live if current mortality patterns stayed constant. That places Macao SAR, China 16 of 217 countries with recent data. The world figure for the same period is 73.5. In 1960 the figure was 63.8 — up 31% since then. Period life expectancy rises when deaths fall at any age; a pandemic year can pull it down without rewriting long-run health. Infant and under-five mortality are the clearer development signals in high-mortality settings. Sex splits show gap patterns that a single national figure hides. Open the mortality chart below for the full series, or the country profile for neighbouring indicators.

Rank 16 / 217

Key figures

life expectancy
83.3
2024
World
73.5
2024
Series start
63.8
1960
Global rank
#16
of 217

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Macao SAR, China life expectancy over time

Life Expectancy at Birth · years

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Crude Death Rate

Deaths per 1,000 people per year. Not adjusted for age structure, so an ageing country can show a rising rate while mortality risk at every age is still falling.

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Life Expectancy at Birth, Female

Years a newborn girl would live under current mortality patterns. Women outlive men almost everywhere; the size of the gap, not its direction, is what varies.

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Life Expectancy at Birth, Male

Years a newborn boy would live under current mortality patterns. Read against the female series: the gap runs from about two years to over ten, widening where male deaths from injury, alcohol and smoking are common.

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How Macao SAR, China compares

Latest available life expectancy for every country. Full mortality rankings →

#CountryMortalityYear
1🇲🇨Monaco86.52024
2🇸🇲San Marino85.82024
3🇭🇰Hong Kong SAR, China85.42024
4🇰🇼Kuwait84.62024
5🇨🇭Switzerland84.42024
6🇱🇮Liechtenstein84.22024
7🇵🇫French Polynesia84.22024
8🇦🇩Andorra84.22024
9🇸🇪Sweden84.12024
10🇯🇵Japan84.02024
11🇮🇹Italy84.02024
12🇪🇸Spain83.92024

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birthrate.io, "Macao SAR, China Mortality (2024)". https://www.birthrate.io/mortality/macao-sar-china (accessed 9 October 2026). Underlying data: World Bank.

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