Canada vs Iceland: Life expectancy

Canada

82.63 years

in 2023

Iceland

82.69 years

in 2023

Canada rank

26th

Iceland rank

25th

Life expectancy over time

Canada
Iceland

How they compare

Iceland currently reports 82.69 years against 82.63 years in Canada, a difference of 0.0609 years.

The two have swapped places 18 times across 111 shared years of data; in 1841 it was Iceland ahead.

Globally, Canada ranks 26th and Iceland ranks 25th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Canada
Life expectancy in Iceland
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.