Life Expectancy at Birth in United Arab Emirates: 1800 to Today (and Tomorrow)

Life expectancy at birth measures how many years a newborn could expect to live, given the mortality of the time and place. For the United Arab Emirates, this metric traces an extraordinary transformation in human survival across three centuries. Every value in the historical record reflects a statistical fact about the lives actually lived there, capturing the quiet weight of generations rising and passing under vastly shifting conditions.

In 1900 it was 32.98 years, following a slow, incremental climb from the 1800s estimate of 30.67, the 1810s estimate of 30.9, the 1820s estimate of 31.13, the 1830s estimate of 31.36, the 1840s estimate of 31.59, the 1850s estimate of 31.82, the 1860s estimate of 32.05, the 1870s estimate of 32.28, the 1880s estimate of 32.51, and the 1890s estimate of 32.74. The pace quickened through the 1910s estimate of 35.31, the 1920s estimate of 37.65, the 1930s estimate of 39.99, the 1940s estimate of 42.33, the 1950s of 44.67, the 1960s of 50.72, the 1970s of 56.77, the 1980s of 62.82, the 1990s of 68.34, the 2000s of 73.87, and the 2010s of 76.28.

In the 2020s, life expectancy at birth in United Arab Emirates stands at 78.7 years — ranking #53 of 157 countries. Looking ahead, the trajectory points toward the 2030s projection of 79.9, the 2040s projection of 81.1, the 2050s projection of 82.3, the 2060s projection of 83.5, the 2070s projection of 84.7, the 2080s projection of 85.9, the 2090s projection of 87.1, and the 2100s projection of 88.3. Where do YOU rank among everyone ever born? →