North Korea vs Suriname: Life expectancy

North Korea

73.64 years

in 2023

Suriname

73.63 years

in 2023

North Korea rank

133rd

Suriname rank

134th

Life expectancy over time

North Korea
Suriname

How they compare

North Korea currently reports 73.64 years against 73.63 years in Suriname, a difference of 0.0108 years.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Suriname ahead.

Globally, North Korea ranks 133rd and Suriname ranks 134th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in North Korea
Life expectancy in Suriname
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.