Austria vs Belgium: Life expectancy

Austria

81.96 years

in 2023

Belgium

82.11 years

in 2023

Austria rank

38th

Belgium rank

35th

Life expectancy over time

Austria
Belgium

How they compare

Belgium currently reports 82.11 years against 81.96 years in Austria, a difference of 0.1591 years.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 84 shared years of data; in 1870 it was Belgium ahead.

Globally, Austria ranks 38th and Belgium ranks 35th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Austria
Life expectancy in Belgium
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.