Data · Population & urbanization
Life expectancy at birth, total (years): Vietnam, 1960–2024
- Latest (2024)
- 74.7 years
- Source
- World Bank
- Code
- SP.DYN.LE00.IN
- Frequency
- Yearly
Definition
Life expectancy at birth indicates the number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life.
What the series shows
The series runs from 1960 to 2024 (65 years of data). It moved from 58.0 to 74.7 years, a change of 28.8%. The highest value was 75.4 in 2020 and the lowest 51.9 in 1972. The comparison below sets Vietnam against 9 neighbouring economies on the latest available year.
Using it in a thesis
Indicators like this one are typical control or explanatory variables in macro and finance theses: merge the CSV with your other series on the year column, check for missing years before running a regression, and log-transform level variables that grow over time. If you use the series in a panel with other countries, take every country from the same source and vintage so the definitions match. Cite the original publisher, not this site, as shown below.
Values by year
| Year | Value (years) |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 74.7 |
| 2023 | 74.6 |
| 2022 | 74.5 |
| 2021 | 74.1 |
| 2020 | 75.4 |
| 2019 | 74.2 |
| 2018 | 74.1 |
| 2017 | 74.0 |
| 2016 | 74.0 |
| 2015 | 74.0 |
| 2014 | 73.9 |
| 2013 | 73.8 |
| 2012 | 73.8 |
| 2011 | 73.7 |
| 2010 | 73.6 |
| 2009 | 73.5 |
| 2008 | 73.5 |
| 2007 | 73.4 |
| 2006 | 73.3 |
| 2005 | 73.2 |
| 2004 | 73.1 |
| 2003 | 73.2 |
| 2002 | 73.1 |
| 2001 | 73.0 |
| 2000 | 72.7 |
| 1999 | 72.6 |
| 1998 | 72.3 |
| 1997 | 71.7 |
| 1996 | 71.3 |
| 1995 | 70.9 |
| 1994 | 70.4 |
| 1993 | 70.0 |
| 1992 | 69.6 |
| 1991 | 69.3 |
| 1990 | 69.0 |
| 1989 | 68.8 |
| 1988 | 68.6 |
| 1987 | 68.0 |
| 1986 | 67.6 |
| 1985 | 67.2 |
| 1984 | 66.9 |
| 1983 | 66.5 |
| 1982 | 66.2 |
| 1981 | 65.8 |
| 1980 | 65.3 |
| 1979 | 65.0 |
| 1978 | 64.5 |
| 1977 | 64.1 |
| 1976 | 63.7 |
| 1975 | 61.9 |
| 1974 | 54.8 |
| 1973 | 55.7 |
| 1972 | 51.9 |
| 1971 | 55.6 |
| 1970 | 54.9 |
| 1969 | 54.8 |
| 1968 | 52.7 |
| 1967 | 56.7 |
| 1966 | 56.9 |
| 1965 | 57.0 |
| 1964 | 57.5 |
| 1963 | 56.9 |
| 1962 | 58.2 |
| 1961 | 58.5 |
| 1960 | 58.0 |
Comparison with other countries
| Country | Latest year | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnam | 2024 | 74.7 |
| Thailand | 2024 | 76.6 |
| Indonesia | 2024 | 71.3 |
| Malaysia | 2024 | 76.8 |
| Philippines | 2024 | 69.9 |
| Singapore | 2024 | 83.3 |
| Cambodia | 2024 | 70.8 |
| Laos | 2024 | 69.2 |
| Myanmar | 2024 | 67.1 |
| China | 2024 | 78.0 |
How to cite (APA 7)
World Bank. (2026). Life expectancy at birth, total (years), Vietnam [Data set]. World Development Indicators. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.LE00.IN?locations=VN
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Retrieved 2026-11-02. The CSV has one row per period
with the variable name sp_dyn_le00_in, ready for Stata, R or SPSS.