United Arab Emirates vs Vatican: Life expectancy

United Arab Emirates

82.91 years

in 2023

Vatican

82.98 years

in 2023

United Arab Emirates rank

24th

Vatican rank

23rd

Life expectancy over time

United Arab Emirates
Vatican

How they compare

Vatican currently reports 82.98 years against 82.91 years in United Arab Emirates, a difference of 0.0757 years.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Vatican ahead.

Globally, United Arab Emirates ranks 24th and Vatican ranks 23rd of 236 countries.

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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.