List of Chinese provincial-level divisions by life expectancy
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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 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| overall | male | female | F Δ M | overall | overall | male | female | F Δ M | ||||
| 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]
| Countries and territories |
2023 | Historical data | recovery from COVID-19: 2019→2023 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All | Male | Female | Sex gap | 2014 | 2014 →2019 |
2019 | 2019 →2020 |
2020 | 2020 →2021 |
2021 | 2021 →2022 |
2022 | 2022 →2023 |
2023 | ||
| 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 | |
| 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]