Denmark vs Finland: Life expectancy

Denmark

81.93 years

in 2023

Finland

81.91 years

in 2023

Denmark rank

39th

Finland rank

40th

Life expectancy over time

Denmark
Finland

How they compare

Denmark currently reports 81.93 years against 81.91 years in Finland, a difference of 0.0226 years.

The two have swapped places 7 times across 152 shared years of data; in 1775 it was Finland ahead.

Globally, Denmark ranks 39th and Finland ranks 40th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Denmark
Life expectancy in Finland
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.