Denmark vs New Zealand: Life expectancy

Denmark

81.93 years

in 2023

New Zealand

82.09 years

in 2023

Denmark rank

39th

New Zealand rank

36th

Life expectancy over time

Denmark
New Zealand

How they compare

New Zealand currently reports 82.09 years against 81.93 years in Denmark, a difference of 0.1552 years.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 76 shared years of data; in 1948 it was Denmark ahead.

Globally, Denmark ranks 39th and New Zealand ranks 36th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Denmark
Life expectancy in New Zealand
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.