Belgium vs Netherlands: Life expectancy

Belgium

82.11 years

in 2023

Netherlands

82.16 years

in 2023

Belgium rank

35th

Netherlands rank

34th

Life expectancy over time

Belgium
Netherlands

How they compare

Netherlands currently reports 82.16 years against 82.11 years in Belgium, a difference of 0.0426 years.

The two have swapped places 9 times across 169 shared years of data; in 1850 it was Belgium ahead.

Globally, Belgium ranks 35th and Netherlands ranks 34th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Belgium
Life expectancy in Netherlands
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.