Marshall Islands vs Micronesia (country): Life expectancy

Marshall Islands
66.95 years
in 2023
Micronesia (country)
67.2 years
in 2023
Marshall Islands rank
195th
Micronesia (country) rank
192nd

Life expectancy over time

  • Marshall Islands
  • Micronesia (country)
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How they compare

Micronesia (country) currently reports 67.2 years against 66.95 years in Marshall Islands, a difference of 0.2529 years.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Marshall Islands ahead.

Globally, Marshall Islands ranks 195th and Micronesia (country) ranks 192nd of 236 countries.

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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

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.