Norway vs Reunion: Life expectancy

Norway

83.31 years

in 2023

Reunion

83.55 years

in 2023

Norway rank

18th

Reunion rank

16th

Life expectancy over time

Norway
Reunion

How they compare

Reunion currently reports 83.55 years against 83.31 years in Norway, a difference of 0.2394 years.

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

Globally, Norway ranks 18th and Reunion ranks 16th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Norway
Life expectancy in Reunion
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.