Curacao vs French Guiana: Life expectancy

Curacao

76.8 years

in 2023

French Guiana

76.98 years

in 2023

Curacao rank

96th

French Guiana rank

95th

Life expectancy over time

Curacao
French Guiana

How they compare

French Guiana currently reports 76.98 years against 76.8 years in Curacao, a difference of 0.1785 years.

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

Globally, Curacao ranks 96th and French Guiana ranks 95th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Curacao
Life expectancy in French Guiana
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.