Russia vs Ukraine: Life expectancy

Russia

73.15 years

in 2023

Ukraine

73.42 years

in 2023

Russia rank

138th

Ukraine rank

137th

Life expectancy over time

Russia
Ukraine

How they compare

Ukraine currently reports 73.42 years against 73.15 years in Russia, a difference of 0.2684 years.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 82 shared years of data; in 1900 it was Ukraine ahead.

Globally, Russia ranks 138th and Ukraine ranks 137th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Russia
Life expectancy in Ukraine
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.