New Caledonia vs Poland: Life expectancy

New Caledonia

78.77 years

in 2023

Poland

78.63 years

in 2023

New Caledonia rank

67th

Poland rank

69th

Life expectancy over time

New Caledonia
Poland

How they compare

New Caledonia currently reports 78.77 years against 78.63 years in Poland, a difference of 0.1329 years.

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

Globally, New Caledonia ranks 67th and Poland ranks 69th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in New Caledonia
Life expectancy in Poland
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.