Greenland vs Niue: Life expectancy

Greenland

70.06 years

in 2023

Niue

69.98 years

in 2023

Greenland rank

170th

Niue rank

171st

Life expectancy over time

Greenland
Niue

How they compare

Greenland currently reports 70.06 years against 69.98 years in Niue, a difference of 0.0772 years.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Niue ahead.

Globally, Greenland ranks 170th and Niue ranks 171st of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Greenland
Life expectancy in Niue
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.