Ireland vs Israel: Life expectancy

Ireland

82.41 years

in 2023

Israel

82.41 years

in 2023

Ireland rank

28th

Israel rank

29th

Life expectancy over time

Ireland
Israel

How they compare

Ireland currently reports 82.41 years against 82.41 years in Israel, a difference of 0.0038 years.

The two have swapped places 11 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Israel ahead.

Globally, Ireland ranks 28th and Israel ranks 29th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Ireland
Life expectancy in Israel
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.