Guernsey vs Sweden: Life expectancy

Guernsey

83.27 years

in 2023

Sweden

83.26 years

in 2023

Guernsey rank

20th

Sweden rank

21st

Life expectancy over time

Guernsey
Sweden

How they compare

Guernsey currently reports 83.27 years against 83.26 years in Sweden, a difference of 0.012 years.

The two have swapped places 14 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Guernsey ahead.

Globally, Guernsey ranks 20th and Sweden ranks 21st of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Guernsey
Life expectancy in Sweden
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.