Hungary vs Turkey: Life expectancy

Hungary

77.02 years

in 2023

Turkey

77.16 years

in 2023

Hungary rank

94th

Turkey rank

91st

Life expectancy over time

Hungary
Turkey

How they compare

Turkey currently reports 77.16 years against 77.02 years in Hungary, a difference of 0.1317 years.

The two have swapped places 7 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Hungary ahead.

Globally, Hungary ranks 94th and Turkey ranks 91st of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Hungary
Life expectancy in Turkey
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.