Thanks to the developed infrastructure in the field of health and education, both countries have become leaders in the Middle East region in terms of average life expectancy from 2005 to 2010. The average life expectancy in Kuwait was 77.6 years, in the United Arab Emirates - 77.4 years. In Bahrain, the average life expectancy for a specified period of time was 75.7 years, in Oman - 75.6 years, in Qatar - 75.5 years.
Even lower life expectancy rates have been recorded in other Arab countries. For example, in Syria - 74.1 years, in Tunisia - 73.9 years, in Palestine - 73.4 years, Saudi Arabia - 72.8 years, Jordan - 72.5 years, Algeria - 72.3 years. Arab countries with low life expectancy also included Somalia, in which they reached only 49.6 years, Djibouti - 55.3 years, Mauritania - 56.6 years, Sudan - 58 years, Yemen - 62.2 of the year.
