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This article lists the provinces of South Africa by their life expectancy at birth according to data by Statistics South Africa.

Global Data Lab (2019–2022)

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
South Africa on average	66.18	62.83	69.11	6.28	−3.84	62.34	−0.86	61.48	58.60	64.18	5.58	−4.70
Limpopo	69.12	65.50	72.52	7.02	−4.01	65.11	−0.90	64.21	61.08	67.35	6.27	−4.91
Western Cape	67.48	64.03	70.63	6.60	−3.91	63.57	−0.87	62.70	59.71	65.59	5.88	−4.78
KwaZulu Natal	67.33	63.89	70.45	6.56	−3.90	63.43	−0.88	62.55	59.58	65.43	5.85	−4.78
Gauteng	67.03	63.61	70.10	6.49	−3.88	63.15	−0.88	62.27	59.32	65.11	5.79	−4.76
Northern Cape	66.11	62.78	69.04	6.26	−3.83	62.28	−0.86	61.42	58.55	64.12	5.57	−4.69
Free State	64.04	60.87	66.61	5.74	−3.71	60.33	−0.83	59.50	56.76	61.86	5.10	−4.54
Eastern Cape	64.00	60.83	66.56	5.73	−3.70	60.30	−0.84	59.46	56.73	61.82	5.09	−4.54
North West	63.89	60.72	66.43	5.71	−3.70	60.19	−0.83	59.36	56.63	61.69	5.06	−4.53
Mpumalanga	62.95	59.84	65.31	5.47	−3.65	59.30	−0.82	58.48	55.80	60.66	4.86	−4.47

Data source: Global Data Lab^[1]

Provincial life expectancy at birth (males), 2001–2021^[2]
Rank	Province	2001–2006	2006–2011	2011–2016	2016–2021 (est.)
1	Western Cape	56.6	61.1	63.9	65.7
2	Gauteng	55.4	56.5	61.6	63.8
3	Limpopo	54.3	54.4	59.3	61.8
4	Northern Cape	51.9	52.9	56.8	60.4
4	Mpumalanga	52.4	53.3	57.8	60.4
6	Eastern Cape	52.3	53.0	57.3	59.6
7	North West	49.1	50.3	56.6	57.9
8	KwaZulu-Natal	47.5	48.3	54.6	57.1
9	Free State	45.6	46.3	53.1	54.6

Provincial life expectancy at birth (females), 2001–2021^[2]
Rank	Province	2001–2006	2006–2011	2011–2016	2016–2021 (est.)
1	Western Cape	64.5	67.2	70.6	71.1
2	Gauteng	59.2	60.9	66.6	69.2
3	Limpopo	57.7	58.6	65.1	67.4
4	Eastern Cape	56.8	58.6	64.0	67.1
5	Mpumalanga	56.1	57.6	63.5	66.2
6	Northern Cape	57.2	58.5	63.3	66.0
7	North West	53.3	55.0	62.6	65.2
8	KwaZulu-Natal	52.6	54.4	60.9	63.7
9	Free State	49.2	50.7	58.6	61.3