Chile vs Germany: Life expectancy

Chile

81.17 years

in 2023

Germany

81.38 years

in 2023

Chile rank

48th

Germany rank

45th

Life expectancy over time

Chile
Germany

How they compare

Germany currently reports 81.38 years against 81.17 years in Chile, a difference of 0.211 years.

Across all 74 years both countries report, Germany has been ahead every year.

Globally, Chile ranks 48th and Germany ranks 45th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Chile
Life expectancy in Germany
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.