Australia vs Spain: Life expectancy

Australia

83.92 years

in 2023

Spain

83.67 years

in 2023

Australia rank

10th

Spain rank

13th

Life expectancy over time

Australia
Spain

How they compare

Australia currently reports 83.92 years against 83.67 years in Spain, a difference of 0.2525 years.

The two have swapped places 14 times across 103 shared years of data; in 1921 it was Australia ahead.

Globally, Australia ranks 10th and Spain ranks 13th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Australia
Life expectancy in Spain
Full country ranking

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
Last refreshed: 06 August 2026

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.