Norway vs Sweden: Life expectancy

Norway

83.31 years

in 2023

Sweden

83.26 years

in 2023

Norway rank

18th

Sweden rank

21st

Life expectancy over time

Norway
Sweden

How they compare

Norway currently reports 83.31 years against 83.26 years in Sweden, a difference of 0.0454 years.

The two have swapped places 36 times across 178 shared years of data; in 1846 it was Norway ahead.

Globally, Norway ranks 18th and Sweden ranks 21st of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Norway
Life expectancy in Sweden
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.