Belgium vs New Zealand: Life expectancy

Belgium

82.11 years

in 2023

New Zealand

82.09 years

in 2023

Belgium rank

35th

New Zealand rank

36th

Life expectancy over time

Belgium
New Zealand

How they compare

Belgium currently reports 82.11 years against 82.09 years in New Zealand, a difference of 0.027 years.

The two have swapped places 11 times across 76 shared years of data; in 1948 it was New Zealand ahead.

Globally, Belgium ranks 35th and New Zealand ranks 36th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Belgium
Life expectancy in New Zealand
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.