Cyprus vs Germany: Life expectancy

Cyprus

81.65 years

in 2023

Germany

81.38 years

in 2023

Cyprus rank

43rd

Germany rank

45th

Life expectancy over time

Cyprus
Germany

How they compare

Cyprus currently reports 81.65 years against 81.38 years in Germany, a difference of 0.2703 years.

The two have swapped places 9 times across 78 shared years of data; in 1895 it was Germany ahead.

Globally, Cyprus ranks 43rd and Germany ranks 45th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Cyprus
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.