Greenland vs Guyana: Life expectancy

Greenland

70.06 years

in 2023

Guyana

70.18 years

in 2023

Greenland rank

170th

Guyana rank

168th

Life expectancy over time

Greenland
Guyana

How they compare

Guyana currently reports 70.18 years against 70.06 years in Greenland, a difference of 0.1252 years.

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

Globally, Greenland ranks 170th and Guyana ranks 168th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Greenland
Life expectancy in Guyana
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.