Faroe Islands vs Oman: Life expectancy

Faroe Islands

80.18 years

in 2023

Oman

80.03 years

in 2023

Faroe Islands rank

56th

Oman rank

57th

Life expectancy over time

Faroe Islands
Oman

How they compare

Faroe Islands currently reports 80.18 years against 80.03 years in Oman, a difference of 0.1487 years.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Faroe Islands ahead.

Globally, Faroe Islands ranks 56th and Oman ranks 57th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Faroe Islands
Life expectancy in Oman
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.