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Japan vs South Korea: Life expectancy

Japan
84.71 years
in 2023
South Korea
84.33 years
in 2023
Japan rank
4th
South Korea rank
5th

Life expectancy over time

  • Japan
  • South Korea
20406080186519442023

How they compare

Japan currently reports 84.71 years against 84.33 years in South Korea, a difference of 0.3835 years.

Across all 74 years both countries report, Japan has been ahead every year.

Globally, Japan ranks 4th and South Korea ranks 5th 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
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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.