Gibraltar vs Spain: Life expectancy

Gibraltar

83.55 years

in 2023

Spain

83.67 years

in 2023

Gibraltar rank

15th

Spain rank

13th

Life expectancy over time

Gibraltar
Spain

How they compare

Spain currently reports 83.67 years against 83.55 years in Gibraltar, a difference of 0.1173 years.

The two have swapped places 15 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Gibraltar ahead.

Globally, Gibraltar ranks 15th and Spain ranks 13th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Gibraltar
Life expectancy in Spain
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.