French Guiana vs Tokelau: Life expectancy

French Guiana

76.98 years

in 2023

Tokelau

77.05 years

in 2023

French Guiana rank

95th

Tokelau rank

93rd

Life expectancy over time

French Guiana
Tokelau

How they compare

Tokelau currently reports 77.05 years against 76.98 years in French Guiana, a difference of 0.0731 years.

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

Globally, French Guiana ranks 95th and Tokelau ranks 93rd of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in French Guiana
Life expectancy in Tokelau
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.