Hong Kong vs Japan: Life expectancy

Hong Kong

85.51 years

in 2023

Japan

84.71 years

in 2023

Hong Kong rank

3rd

Japan rank

4th

Life expectancy over time

Hong Kong
Japan

How they compare

Hong Kong currently reports 85.51 years against 84.71 years in Japan, a difference of 0.7983 years.

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

Globally, Hong Kong ranks 3rd and Japan ranks 4th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Hong Kong
Life expectancy in Japan
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.