Iceland vs United Arab Emirates: Life expectancy

Iceland

82.69 years

in 2023

United Arab Emirates

82.91 years

in 2023

Iceland rank

25th

United Arab Emirates rank

24th

Life expectancy over time

Iceland
United Arab Emirates

How they compare

United Arab Emirates currently reports 82.91 years against 82.69 years in Iceland, a difference of 0.218 years.

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

Globally, Iceland ranks 25th and United Arab Emirates ranks 24th of 236 countries.

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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.