Life Expectancy / Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia Life Expectancy
Saudi Arabia life expectancy data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 78.98.
COUNTRY: Saudi Arabia
UNIT: years
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-06-29 05:08:47
GM ECONOMY RATING
Saudi Arabia · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
BB
62 / 100
Moderate stability
Fiscal stability
7.0 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
16.0 / 20
External stability
4.0 / 15
Financial robustness
11.0 / 15
Structural stability
13.0 / 15
Future capacity
10.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
4.0 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 100% of weighted inputs available.
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Saudi Arabia · life expectancy data as years.
Latest
78.98
Previous
78.73
Range avg.
78.16
Rank
36
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CountrySaudi Arabia
IndicatorLife Expectancy
78.982024 · Rank 36
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Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Saudi Arabia recorded 78.98 for Life Expectancy in 2024, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2023, the indicator increased by 0.25 (0.3%), from 78.73 to 78.98.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (78.16).
Across the five latest available observations (2020–2024), the pattern is predominantly upward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 77.09 in 2021 and the high was 78.98 in 2024.
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