Sweden vs Vatican: Life expectancy

Sweden

83.26 years

in 2023

Vatican

82.98 years

in 2023

Sweden rank

21st

Vatican rank

23rd

Life expectancy over time

Sweden
Vatican

How they compare

Sweden currently reports 83.26 years against 82.98 years in Vatican, a difference of 0.2776 years.

The two have swapped places 10 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Sweden ahead.

Globally, Sweden ranks 21st and Vatican ranks 23rd of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Sweden
Life expectancy in Vatican
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.