Guernsey vs Norway: Life expectancy

Guernsey

83.27 years

in 2023

Norway

83.31 years

in 2023

Guernsey rank

20th

Norway rank

18th

Life expectancy over time

Guernsey
Norway

How they compare

Norway currently reports 83.31 years against 83.27 years in Guernsey, a difference of 0.0334 years.

The two have swapped places 24 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Norway ahead.

Globally, Guernsey ranks 20th and Norway ranks 18th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Guernsey
Life expectancy in Norway
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.