Life Expectancy at Birth in Ukraine: 1800 to Today (and Tomorrow)

At MYRIAD, we examine the statistics of human lives to understand how time and geography shape our existence. Life expectancy at birth measures how many years a newborn could expect to live, given the mortality of the time and place. For Ukraine, the story across three centuries is below—every value is a statistical fact about the lives actually lived there.

In the 1800s estimate, life expectancy stood at 32.89 years. Across the decades, it progressed through the 1810s estimate 33.7, the 1820s estimate 34.52, the 1830s estimate 35.34, the 1840s estimate 36.16, the 1850s estimate 36.98, the 1860s estimate 37.79, the 1870s estimate 38.61, the 1880s estimate 39.43, the 1890s estimate 40.25, and in 1900 it was 41.07 years, continuing upward through the 1910s estimate 44.92, the 1920s estimate 48.78, the 1930s estimate 52.63, the 1940s estimate 56.49, the 1950s 60.34, the 1960s 62.57, the 1970s 64.79, the 1980s 67.01, the 1990s 67.95, the 2000s 68.89, and the 2010s 70.24.

In the 2020s, life expectancy at birth in Ukraine stands at 71.6 years—ranking #110 of 157 countries. Looking forward, projections anticipate the 2030s projection 72.8, the 2040s projection 74, the 2050s projection 75.2, the 2060s projection 76.4, the 2070s projection 77.6, the 2080s projection 78.8, the 2090s projection 80, and the 2100s projection 81.2. Where do YOU rank among everyone ever born? →