Macao vs Vatican: Life expectancy

Macao

83.07 years

in 2023

Vatican

82.98 years

in 2023

Macao rank

22nd

Vatican rank

23rd

Life expectancy over time

Macao
Vatican

How they compare

Macao currently reports 83.07 years against 82.98 years in Vatican, a difference of 0.0901 years.

The two have swapped places 13 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Vatican ahead.

Globally, Macao ranks 22nd and Vatican ranks 23rd of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Macao
Life expectancy in Vatican
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.