Japan vs San Marino: Life expectancy

Japan

84.71 years

in 2023

San Marino

85.71 years

in 2023

Japan rank

4th

San Marino rank

2nd

Life expectancy over time

Japan
San Marino

How they compare

San Marino currently reports 85.71 years against 84.71 years in Japan, a difference of 0.9939 years.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was San Marino ahead.

Globally, Japan ranks 4th and San Marino ranks 2nd of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Japan
Life expectancy in San Marino
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.