British Virgin Islands vs Turkey: Life expectancy

British Virgin Islands

77.28 years

in 2023

Turkey

77.16 years

in 2023

British Virgin Islands rank

89th

Turkey rank

91st

Life expectancy over time

British Virgin Islands
Turkey

How they compare

British Virgin Islands currently reports 77.28 years against 77.16 years in Turkey, a difference of 0.1201 years.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was British Virgin Islands ahead.

Globally, British Virgin Islands ranks 89th and Turkey ranks 91st of 236 countries.

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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.