Austria vs Denmark: Life expectancy

Austria

81.96 years

in 2023

Denmark

81.93 years

in 2023

Austria rank

38th

Denmark rank

39th

Life expectancy over time

Austria
Denmark

How they compare

Austria currently reports 81.96 years against 81.93 years in Denmark, a difference of 0.0231 years.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 84 shared years of data; in 1870 it was Denmark ahead.

Globally, Austria ranks 38th and Denmark ranks 39th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Austria
Life expectancy in Denmark
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.