France vs Norway: Life expectancy

France

83.33 years

in 2023

Norway

83.31 years

in 2023

France rank

17th

Norway rank

18th

Life expectancy over time

France
Norway

How they compare

France currently reports 83.33 years against 83.31 years in Norway, a difference of 0.0175 years.

The two have swapped places 13 times across 178 shared years of data; in 1846 it was Norway ahead.

Globally, France ranks 17th and Norway ranks 18th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in France
Life expectancy in Norway
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.