Greenland vs Turkmenistan: Life expectancy

Greenland
70.06 years
in 2023
Turkmenistan
70.07 years
in 2023
Greenland rank
170th
Turkmenistan rank
169th

Life expectancy over time

  • Greenland
  • Turkmenistan
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How they compare

Turkmenistan currently reports 70.07 years against 70.06 years in Greenland, a difference of 0.0177 years.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Turkmenistan ahead.

Globally, Greenland ranks 170th and Turkmenistan ranks 169th 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
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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.