Iceland vs Ireland: Life expectancy

Iceland

82.69 years

in 2023

Ireland

82.41 years

in 2023

Iceland rank

25th

Ireland rank

28th

Life expectancy over time

Iceland
Ireland

How they compare

Iceland currently reports 82.69 years against 82.41 years in Ireland, a difference of 0.2793 years.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 80 shared years of data; in 1901 it was Iceland ahead.

Globally, Iceland ranks 25th and Ireland ranks 28th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Iceland
Life expectancy in Ireland
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.