South Korea vs San Marino: Life expectancy

South Korea

84.33 years

in 2023

San Marino

85.71 years

in 2023

South Korea rank

5th

San Marino rank

2nd

Life expectancy over time

South Korea
San Marino

How they compare

San Marino currently reports 85.71 years against 84.33 years in South Korea, a difference of 1.38 years.

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

Globally, South Korea ranks 5th and San Marino ranks 2nd of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in South Korea
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.