Faroe Islands vs Kuwait: Life expectancy

Faroe Islands

80.18 years

in 2023

Kuwait

80.4 years

in 2023

Faroe Islands rank

56th

Kuwait rank

53rd

Life expectancy over time

Faroe Islands
Kuwait

How they compare

Kuwait currently reports 80.4 years against 80.18 years in Faroe Islands, a difference of 0.2255 years.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Faroe Islands ahead.

Globally, Faroe Islands ranks 56th and Kuwait ranks 53rd of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Faroe Islands
Life expectancy in Kuwait
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.