French Polynesia vs Japan: Life expectancy

French Polynesia

84.07 years

in 2023

Japan

84.71 years

in 2023

French Polynesia rank

7th

Japan rank

4th

Life expectancy over time

French Polynesia
Japan

How they compare

Japan currently reports 84.71 years against 84.07 years in French Polynesia, a difference of 0.6425 years.

Across all 74 years both countries report, Japan has been ahead every year.

Globally, French Polynesia ranks 7th and Japan ranks 4th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in French Polynesia
Life expectancy in Japan
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.