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Mortality in Myanmar, by the numbers

Myanmar sits in East Asia & Pacific. A newborn there can expect about 67.2 years of life, 173rd of 212 countries with data. Below, every mortality measure the National Death Index tracks for Myanmar, each with its global rank and source year.

Life expectancy
67.2 yrs
173rd of 212
Health spending per capita
$56
25th lowest of 191
Adult obesity
5.5 %
20th lowest of 143

17 measures · sources: World Bank Open Data and WHO Global Health Observatory (Global Health Estimates 2021) · latest available year per figure

How Myanmar ranks, measure by measure
MeasureValueWorld rankYear
Life expectancy at birth 67.2 yrs 173 of 212 2024
Age-standardized death rate 10.1 /1,000 60 of 182 2021
Crude death rate 9.2 /1,000 57 of 212 2024
Life expectancy at 60 17.1 yrs 124 of 182 2021
Male mortality penalty 103 /1,000 32 of 212 2024
Life-expectancy gap (F−M) 6.4 yrs 46 of 212 2024
Old-age sex ratio (65+) 74.5 men/100 women 65 of 212 2024
Infant mortality 32.8 /1,000 39 of 192 2024
Maternal mortality 185 /100k 38 of 191 2023
Premature NCD mortality 24.0 % 37 of 182 2021
Suicide rate 2.9 /100k 155 of 182 2021
Road-traffic deaths 20.4 /100k 66 of 187 2019
Adult obesity 5.5 % 124 of 143 2014
Recorded alcohol per adult 1.9 L 135 of 185 2020
Population aged 65+ 7.3 % 116 of 212 2024
Health spending per capita $56 167 of 191 2023
GDP per capita $1,359 183 of 212 2024

Measured against the rest of the world, Myanmar's sharpest departures from the middle of the pack are the 25th lowest health spending per capita in the world ($56) and the 20th lowest adult obesity in the world (5.5 %). Every figure above is the most recent the source reports for Myanmar; the year sits beside each one, and rankings cover only countries with data for that measure.