British Virgin Islands vs Guam: Life expectancy

British Virgin Islands

77.28 years

in 2023

Guam

77.21 years

in 2023

British Virgin Islands rank

89th

Guam rank

90th

Life expectancy over time

British Virgin Islands
Guam

How they compare

British Virgin Islands currently reports 77.28 years against 77.21 years in Guam, a difference of 0.0665 years.

The two have swapped places 7 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Guam ahead.

Globally, British Virgin Islands ranks 89th and Guam ranks 90th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

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.