Cyprus vs Greece: Life expectancy

Cyprus

81.65 years

in 2023

Greece

81.86 years

in 2023

Cyprus rank

43rd

Greece rank

41st

Life expectancy over time

Cyprus
Greece

How they compare

Greece currently reports 81.86 years against 81.65 years in Cyprus, a difference of 0.2088 years.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 75 shared years of data; in 1937 it was Greece ahead.

Globally, Cyprus ranks 43rd and Greece ranks 41st of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Cyprus
Life expectancy in Greece
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.