Croatia vs Poland: Life expectancy

Croatia

78.58 years

in 2023

Poland

78.63 years

in 2023

Croatia rank

71st

Poland rank

69th

Life expectancy over time

Croatia
Poland

How they compare

Poland currently reports 78.63 years against 78.58 years in Croatia, a difference of 0.0526 years.

The two have swapped places 15 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Croatia ahead.

Globally, Croatia ranks 71st and Poland ranks 69th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Croatia
Life expectancy in Poland
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.