French Polynesia vs South Korea: Life expectancy

French Polynesia

84.07 years

in 2023

South Korea

84.33 years

in 2023

French Polynesia rank

7th

South Korea rank

5th

Life expectancy over time

French Polynesia
South Korea

How they compare

South Korea currently reports 84.33 years against 84.07 years in French Polynesia, a difference of 0.259 years.

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

Globally, French Polynesia ranks 7th and South Korea ranks 5th 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
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.