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

To understand the statistics of human lives is to measure time in heartbeats, breaths, and the sheer persistence of existence. For Vietnam, the data reveals how many years a newborn could expect to live, given the mortality of the time and place. Every value in this record is a statistical fact about the lives actually lived there across three centuries, charting the slow accumulation of days granted to each generation.

In the 1800s estimate, life expectancy hovered at 28.93 years, creeping forward through the 1810s estimate at 29.13, the 1820s estimate at 29.33, the 1830s estimate at 29.52, the 1840s estimate at 29.72, the 1850s estimate at 29.92, the 1860s estimate at 30.11, the 1870s estimate at 30.31, the 1880s estimate at 30.51, the 1890s estimate at 30.71, and the 1900s estimate at 30.9, before reaching 1900 when it was 30.9 years. The climb continued through the 1910s estimate at 33.69, the 1920s estimate at 36.47, the 1930s estimate at 39.25, the 1940s estimate at 42.04, the 1950s at 44.82, the 1960s at 51.44, the 1970s at 58.06, the 1980s at 64.68, the 1990s at 67.64, the 2000s at 70.59, and the 2010s at 73.05.

Today, in the 2020s, life expectancy at birth in Vietnam stands at 75.5 years — ranking #73 of 157 countries. Looking ahead, the trajectory extends through the 2030s projection at 76.7, the 2040s projection at 77.9, the 2050s projection at 79.1, the 2060s projection at 80.3, the 2070s projection at 81.5, the 2080s projection at 82.7, the 2090s projection at 83.9, and the 2100s projection at 85.1. Where do YOU rank among everyone ever born? →