Italy vs Spain: Life expectancy

Italy

83.72 years

in 2023

Spain

83.67 years

in 2023

Italy rank

12th

Spain rank

13th

Life expectancy over time

Italy
Spain

How they compare

Italy currently reports 83.72 years against 83.67 years in Spain, a difference of 0.0454 years.

The two have swapped places 18 times across 119 shared years of data; in 1882 it was Italy ahead.

Globally, Italy ranks 12th and Spain ranks 13th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Italy
Life expectancy in Spain
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.