List of Chinese provincial-level divisions by life expectancy

China at the 1st level of administrative division is divided to 22 provinces, 5 autonomous regions, 4 direct-administered municipalities, and 2 special administrative regions (plus 1 claimed province).

According to estimation of the United Nations, in 2023 life expectancy in China was 77.95 years (75.20 for male, 80.93 for female). This is 0.25 years less than it was in 2022.^[1]

Estimation of the World Bank Group for 2023 is exactly the same: 77.95 years total (75.20 for male, 80.93 for female).^[2]

According to estimation of the WHO for 2019, at that year life expectancy in China was 77.31 years (74.58 years for male and 80.36 years for female).
And healthy life expectancy was 68.45 years (66.99 years for male and 70.08 years for female).^[3]

Life expectancy in China is several years lower than in neighboring South Korea, Japan and Singapore, but several years higher than in Vietnam, Kazakhstan, North Korea, Russia and India.^[1]^[2]

Global Data Lab (2019–2022)

This is a list of the first-level administrative divisions of the People's Republic of China (P.R.C.) in order of their life expectancy in 2019–2022, including all provinces and autonomous regions, but not including special administrative regions.^[4]

region	2019				2019 →2021	2021	2021 →2022	2022				2019 →2022
region	overall	male	female	F Δ M	2019 →2021	overall	2021 →2022	overall	male	female	F Δ M	2019 →2022
China on average	77.97	75.30	80.82	5.52	0.24	78.21	0.38	78.59	75.96	81.34	5.38	0.62
Shanghai	82.38	80.11	84.68	4.57	0.17	82.55	0.40	82.95	80.75	85.14	4.39	0.57
Beijing	82.32	80.16	84.43	4.27	0.17	82.49	0.40	82.89	80.79	84.89	4.10	0.57
Tianjin	81.11	79.07	83.16	4.09	0.19	81.30	0.39	81.69	79.67	83.66	3.99	0.58
Zhejiang	80.00	77.78	82.39	4.61	0.19	80.19	0.38	80.57	78.44	82.84	4.40	0.57
Jiangsu	79.11	76.72	81.57	4.85	0.21	79.32	0.38	79.70	77.36	82.09	4.73	0.59
Guangdong	79.08	76.42	81.98	5.56	0.23	79.31	0.38	79.69	77.09	82.48	5.39	0.61
Shandong	78.96	76.16	81.85	5.69	0.22	79.18	0.38	79.56	76.80	82.37	5.57	0.60
Hainan	78.83	75.51	82.60	7.09	0.22	79.05	0.38	79.43	76.17	83.10	6.93	0.60
Liaoning	78.50	75.72	81.32	5.60	0.18	78.68	0.38	79.06	76.30	81.80	5.50	0.56
Chongqing	78.33	75.54	81.38	5.84	0.23	78.56	0.38	78.94	76.20	81.90	5.70	0.61
Fujian	78.27	75.50	81.31	5.81	0.22	78.49	0.38	78.87	76.15	81.81	5.66	0.60
Jilin	78.24	75.42	81.15	5.73	0.17	78.41	0.38	78.79	75.96	81.66	5.70	0.55
Heilongjiang	78.08	75.10	81.21	6.11	0.17	78.25	0.38	78.63	75.67	81.68	6.01	0.55
Guangxi	77.82	74.30	81.73	7.43	0.24	78.06	0.37	78.43	74.97	82.24	7.27	0.61
Hubei	77.74	75.37	80.26	4.89	0.26	78.00	0.37	78.37	76.07	80.78	4.71	0.63
Anhui	77.73	75.18	80.48	5.30	0.23	77.96	0.37	78.33	75.86	80.97	5.11	0.60
Shanxi	77.66	75.31	80.20	4.89	0.25	77.91	0.37	78.28	75.98	80.72	4.74	0.62
Hunan	77.62	75.00	80.47	5.47	0.26	77.88	0.37	78.25	75.70	81.00	5.30	0.63
Shaanxi	77.54	75.26	79.94	4.68	0.26	77.80	0.37	78.17	75.93	80.49	4.56	0.63
Sichuan	77.54	74.68	80.64	5.96	0.25	77.79	0.37	78.16	75.34	81.18	5.84	0.62
Hebei	77.53	74.90	80.26	5.36	0.22	77.75	0.37	78.12	75.53	80.77	5.24	0.59
Jiangxi	77.36	74.71	80.22	5.51	0.28	77.64	0.37	78.01	75.41	80.77	5.36	0.65
Henan	77.35	74.26	80.56	6.30	0.25	77.60	0.37	77.97	74.92	81.09	6.17	0.62
Inner Mongolia	77.30	74.63	80.18	5.55	0.26	77.56	0.37	77.93	75.31	80.70	5.39	0.63
Ningxia	76.31	74.48	78.18	3.70	0.27	76.58	0.37	76.95	75.22	78.65	3.43	0.64
Xinjiang	75.37	73.27	77.63	4.36	0.28	75.65	0.36	76.01	73.99	78.14	4.15	0.64
Gansu	75.35	73.28	77.52	4.24	0.29	75.64	0.36	76.00	73.97	78.10	4.13	0.65
Guizhou	74.84	71.67	78.29	6.62	0.36	75.20	0.36	75.56	72.41	78.96	6.55	0.72
Yunnan	73.62	70.54	77.08	6.54	0.40	74.02	0.36	74.38	71.30	77.79	6.49	0.76
Qinghai	73.61	71.31	76.04	4.73	0.35	73.96	0.35	74.31	72.04	76.67	4.63	0.70
Tibet	71.84	69.83	74.32	4.49	0.35	72.19	0.35	72.54	70.58	74.99	4.41	0.70

Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (2019)

Life expectancy in Chinese regions in 2019 according to an article in the journal CCDC Weekly published by CCDC:^[5]

region	overall	male	female	sex gap
China	77.6	74.7	80.7	6.0
Shanghai	82.7	80.3	85.0	4.7
Beijing	82.7	79.6	85.9	6.3
Zhejiang	81.5	78.8	84.5	5.7
Guangdong	81.1	77.8	84.7	6.9
Jiangsu	80.8	77.9	83.8	5.9
Fujian	79.7	76.6	83.1	6.5
Tianjin	79.5	76.8	82.7	5.9
Shandong	78.7	75.7	81.9	6.2
Anhui	78.0	75.3	81.1	5.8
Jiangxi	77.6	74.8	80.6	5.8
Hubei	77.5	75.0	80.3	5.3
Henan	77.5	74.4	80.7	6.3
Liaoning	77.2	73.8	81.0	7.2
Jilin	77.1	75.8	78.4	2.6
Hainan	77.0	74.6	79.7	5.1
Shaanxi	76.7	74.4	79.4	5.0
Hunan	76.6	73.6	80.1	6.5
Chongqing	76.5	73.8	79.5	5.7
Shanxi	76.4	73.9	79.3	5.4
Inner Mongolia	76.3	73.5	79.7	6.2
Gansu	76.1	73.6	78.9	5.3
Guangxi	76.1	72.6	80.2	7.6
Ningxia	75.9	73.4	78.6	5.2
Hebei	75.7	72.6	79.1	6.5
Heilongjiang	75.5	72.5	79.0	6.5
Sichuan	75.5	72.5	79.0	6.5
Guizhou	74.8	72.1	77.8	5.7
Yunnan	74.2	71.1	77.9	6.8
Qinghai	72.1	70.1	74.4	4.3
Xinjiang	71.9	70.0	74.2	4.2
Tibet	70.1	67.6	72.9	5.3

World Bank Group (2023)

Life expectancy in the special administrative regions of China according to the World Bank Group:^[6]

World Bank Group (2023)
Countries and territories	2023				Historical data											recovery from COVID-19: 2019→2023
Countries and territories	All	Male	Female	Sex gap	2014	2014 →2019	2019	2019 →2020	2020	2020 →2021	2021	2021 →2022	2022	2022 →2023	2023	recovery from COVID-19: 2019→2023
Hong Kong SAR, China	85.25	82.54	88.09	5.55	83.94	1.22	85.16	0.34	85.50	0.04	85.53	−1.87	83.66	1.59	85.25	0.09
Macao SAR, China	83.18	80.40	86.10	5.70	83.02	0.91	83.93	0.20	84.13	−0.40	83.73	−0.65	83.08	0.10	83.18	−0.75
China on average	77.95	75.20	80.93	5.73	76.71	1.23	77.94	0.08	78.02	0.10	78.12	0.08	78.20	−0.25	77.95	0.01

Charts

Development of life expectancy in China according to estimation of the World Bank Group^[2]
Life expectancy with calculated sex gap^[2]
Life expectancy in comparison to president of PRC^[2]
Life expectancy in China according to estimation of Our World in Data^[7]
Comparison of life expectancy development in China, USA, Russia^[2]
Development of life expectancy in China in comparison to some big countries of the world^[2]
Development of life expectancy in China in comparison to other big countries of Asia^[2]
Development of life expectancy in China in comparison to some countries of South-East Asia and Oceania^[2]

Life expectancy and healthy life expectancy in China on the background of other countries of the world in 2019^[3]
Life expectancy and healthy life expectancy for males and females separately^[3]

Life expectancy and healthy life expectancy in China on the background of countries of Asia and Oceania in 2019^[3]
Life expectancy and healthy life expectancy for males and females separately^[3]

References

1 2 "World Population Prospects 2024". United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. 27 July 2024. Archived from the original (XLSX) on 27 October 2025. Retrieved 8 September 2025. — see file "Compact (most used: estimates and medium projections)"
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Life expectancy at birth, total - China". World Bank Group.
1 2 3 4 5 "The Global Health Observatory: Life expectancy and Healthy life expectancy". World Health Organization. 2 August 2024. Retrieved 5 December 2025.
↑ "Life expectancy 2022 - Maps | Subnational HDI (v8.0)". Global Data Lab. Retrieved 15 October 2024.
1 2 Jing Yang, Ruhai Bai, Lijun Wang, Xiaoqi Feng, Yunning Liu, Maigeng Zhou (13 January 2023). "Healthy China: A Projection of Life Expectancy Based on the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 — China, 1990–2030". China CDC Weekly. doi:10.46234/ccdcw2023.008. PMID 36776687. Retrieved 12 April 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) — table 1, page 42
↑ "Life expectancy at birth, total - Hong Kong SAR, China, Macao SAR, China". World Bank Group. 15 April 2025. Retrieved 28 April 2025.
↑ "Life expectancy at birth: China". Our World in Data.

National Bureau of Statistics of the People's Republic of China
The World FactBook
List of Chinese cities by life expectancy

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[CCDC_Weekly-5] 1 2 Jing Yang, Ruhai Bai, Lijun Wang, Xiaoqi Feng, Yunning Liu, Maigeng Zhou (13 January 2023). "Healthy China: A Projection of Life Expectancy Based on the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 — China, 1990–2030". China CDC Weekly. doi:10.46234/ccdcw2023.008. PMID 36776687. Retrieved 12 April 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) — table 1, page 42

[wbg_hongkong_macao-6] "Life expectancy at birth, total - Hong Kong SAR, China, Macao SAR, China". World Bank Group. 15 April 2025. Retrieved 28 April 2025.

[7] "Life expectancy at birth: China". Our World in Data.

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