Greenland vs Philippines: Life expectancy

Greenland

70.06 years

in 2023

Philippines

69.83 years

in 2023

Greenland rank

170th

Philippines rank

172nd

Life expectancy over time

Greenland
Philippines

How they compare

Greenland currently reports 70.06 years against 69.83 years in Philippines, a difference of 0.2223 years.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Philippines ahead.

Globally, Greenland ranks 170th and Philippines ranks 172nd of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Greenland
Life expectancy in Philippines
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.