By Pascal Ibe
Claim
@SavvyRinu, on the X platform, claimed that Nigeria is the country with the shortest life expectancy in the world in 2025.
Verdict
The claim is FALSE. According to credible data from World Bank Open Data and Statista, statistic shows the countries and territories with the lowest projected life expectancy between 2050 and 2055. Between 2050 and 2055, the Central African Republic(the shortest country) is projected to have a life expectancy of 62.13 years.
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@Savvy Rinu has claimed that Nigeria ranks as the country with the shortest life expectancy in the world in 2025. No be village people dey kill us.
@SavvyRinu claimed that the average Nigerian is expected to die at 53 years.
The post garnered over 150k views, many comments, and more than 3.1k likes, according to X analytics.
Verification
Global life expectancy at birth recovered from a two-year decline in 2022 but has yet to return to the record high hit in 2019.
The 2022 figures available from the World Bank indicate average life expectancy at birth was 72 years in 2022, returning approximately to the same mark recorded in 2020 and ticking up from 71.3 years in 2021. World life expectancy hit a high point at nearly 73 years in 2019, the year before the COVID-19 pandemic took hold.
The African nations of Chad and Lesotho had the lowest average life expectancy measurements among all countries at approximately 53 years. All of the bottom 10 countries for life expectancy were located on the African continent.
However, data released by Statista in January 2025, This statistic shows the countries and territories with the lowest projected life expectancy between 2050 and 2055. Between 2050 and 2055, the Central African Republic is projected to have a life expectancy of 62.13 years.
Chad was ranked second with 62.9 years while Nigeria is projected to have a life expectancy of 63.55 years.
CEOWorld Magazine ranked Central African Republic, Lesotho, and Chad as the lowest average life expectancy measurements among all countries at approximately 53 years.
Conclusion
The claim that Nigeria is the country with shortest life expectancy, is FALSE. Data from the World Bank in 2022 indicated Chad has the lowest life expectancy of years. Recent data by Statista and CEO Magazine in January ranked the Central African Republic, Lesotho, and Chad as the lowest average life expectancy measurements among all countries.
