Portugal vs Qatar: Life expectancy

Portugal

82.36 years

in 2023

Qatar

82.37 years

in 2023

Portugal rank

31st

Qatar rank

30th

Life expectancy over time

Portugal
Qatar

How they compare

Qatar currently reports 82.37 years against 82.36 years in Portugal, a difference of 0.0081 years.

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

Globally, Portugal ranks 31st and Qatar ranks 30th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Portugal
Life expectancy in Qatar
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.