Poland vs Slovakia: Life expectancy

Poland

78.63 years

in 2023

Slovakia

78.34 years

in 2023

Poland rank

69th

Slovakia rank

72nd

Life expectancy over time

Poland
Slovakia

How they compare

Poland currently reports 78.63 years against 78.34 years in Slovakia, a difference of 0.2915 years.

The two have swapped places 11 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Slovakia ahead.

Globally, Poland ranks 69th and Slovakia ranks 72nd of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Poland
Life expectancy in Slovakia
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.