Cook Islands vs United States Virgin Islands: Life expectancy

Cook Islands
75.28 years
in 2023
United States Virgin Islands
75.47 years
in 2023
Cook Islands rank
119th
United States Virgin Islands rank
116th

Life expectancy over time

  • Cook Islands
  • United States Virgin Islands
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How they compare

United States Virgin Islands currently reports 75.47 years against 75.28 years in Cook Islands, a difference of 0.1906 years.

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

Globally, Cook Islands ranks 119th and United States Virgin Islands ranks 116th 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

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.