Bulgaria vs Romania: Life expectancy

Bulgaria

75.64 years

in 2023

Romania

75.94 years

in 2023

Bulgaria rank

115th

Romania rank

112th

Life expectancy over time

Bulgaria
Romania

How they compare

Romania currently reports 75.94 years against 75.64 years in Bulgaria, a difference of 0.3018 years.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Bulgaria ahead.

Globally, Bulgaria ranks 115th and Romania ranks 112th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Bulgaria
Life expectancy in Romania
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.