Estonia vs United States: Life expectancy

Estonia

79.15 years

in 2023

United States

79.3 years

in 2023

Estonia rank

65th

United States rank

63rd

Life expectancy over time

Estonia
United States

How they compare

United States currently reports 79.3 years against 79.15 years in Estonia, a difference of 0.1508 years.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 76 shared years of data; in 1922 it was United States ahead.

Globally, Estonia ranks 65th and United States ranks 63rd of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Estonia
Life expectancy in United States
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.