Australia vs French Polynesia: Life expectancy

Australia
83.92 years
in 2023
French Polynesia
84.07 years
in 2023
Australia rank
10th
French Polynesia rank
7th

Life expectancy over time

  • Australia
  • French Polynesia
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How they compare

French Polynesia currently reports 84.07 years against 83.92 years in Australia, a difference of 0.147 years.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Australia ahead.

Globally, Australia ranks 10th and French Polynesia ranks 7th of 236 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Life expectancy
Unit
years
Source
Riley (2005); Zijdeman et al. (2015); HMD (2025); UN WPP (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
236 places, 19,452 data points, 1543–2023
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Period life expectancy is the number of years the average person born in a certain year would live if they experienced the same chances of dying at each age as people did that year.