Iceland vs Macao: Life expectancy

Iceland

82.69 years

in 2023

Macao

83.07 years

in 2023

Iceland rank

25th

Macao rank

22nd

Life expectancy over time

Iceland
Macao

How they compare

Macao currently reports 83.07 years against 82.69 years in Iceland, a difference of 0.3838 years.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Iceland ahead.

Globally, Iceland ranks 25th and Macao ranks 22nd of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Iceland
Life expectancy in Macao
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.