French Guiana vs Saint Helena: Life expectancy

French Guiana
76.98 years
in 2023
Saint Helena
76.79 years
in 2023
French Guiana rank
95th
Saint Helena rank
97th

Life expectancy over time

  • French Guiana
  • Saint Helena
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How they compare

French Guiana currently reports 76.98 years against 76.79 years in Saint Helena, a difference of 0.1912 years.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Saint Helena ahead.

Globally, French Guiana ranks 95th and Saint Helena ranks 97th of 236 countries.

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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
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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.