Netherlands vs Portugal: Life expectancy

Netherlands

82.16 years

in 2023

Portugal

82.36 years

in 2023

Netherlands rank

34th

Portugal rank

31st

Life expectancy over time

Netherlands
Portugal

How they compare

Portugal currently reports 82.36 years against 82.16 years in Netherlands, a difference of 0.2023 years.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 84 shared years of data; in 1940 it was Netherlands ahead.

Globally, Netherlands ranks 34th and Portugal ranks 31st of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Netherlands
Life expectancy in Portugal
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.