Japan vs Monaco: Life expectancy

Japan

84.71 years

in 2023

Monaco

86.37 years

in 2023

Japan rank

4th

Monaco rank

1st

Life expectancy over time

Japan
Monaco

How they compare

Monaco currently reports 86.37 years against 84.71 years in Japan, a difference of 1.66 years.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Monaco ahead.

Globally, Japan ranks 4th and Monaco ranks 1st of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Japan
Life expectancy in Monaco
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.