Life expectancy in Faroe Islands
Faroe Islands: Life expectancy was 80.18 years in 2023. ▲ Rising
Life expectancy in Faroe Islands, 1950–2023
Source: Riley (2005); Zijdeman et al. (2015); HMD (2025); UN WPP (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data. Measured in years.
Analysis
Faroe Islands recorded 80.18 years for life expectancy in 2023. That is the highest value across all 74 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 1.2% on the previous year and up 1.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, life expectancy in Faroe Islands peaked at 80.18 years in 2023 and was at its lowest, 60.57 years, in 1950.
Faroe Islands ranks 56th of 236 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 74 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 65.95 years | 60.57 years | 71.3 years | 10 |
| 1960s | 73.66 years | 72.02 years | 74.71 years | 10 |
| 1970s | 75.29 years | 74.85 years | 75.67 years | 10 |
| 1980s | 76.11 years | 75.75 years | 76.7 years | 10 |
| 1990s | 77.57 years | 76.89 years | 78.15 years | 10 |
| 2000s | 78.4 years | 78.25 years | 78.62 years | 10 |
| 2010s | 79.35 years | 78.73 years | 79.91 years | 10 |
| 2020s | 79.8 years | 79.26 years | 80.18 years | 4 |
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More health data for Faroe Islands
- Age population, age 10, male, interpolated 384 (2025)
- Age population, age 12, male, interpolated 387 (2025)
- Age population, age 12, female, interpolated 346 (2025)
- Age population, age 11, male, interpolated 392 (2025)
- Age population, age 11, female, interpolated 363 (2025)
- Age population, age 09, male, interpolated 384 (2025)
- Population ages 65 and above, female 18.9% (2025)
- Population ages 65 and above, female 5,032 (2025)
- Age population, age 13, female, interpolated 346 (2025)
- Age population, age 10, female, interpolated 379 (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is life expectancy in Faroe Islands?
- Life expectancy in Faroe Islands was 80.18 years in 2023, according to Riley (2005); Zijdeman et al. (2015); HMD (2025); UN WPP (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data.
- What is the highest life expectancy recorded in Faroe Islands?
- The highest recorded value was 80.18 years in 2023.
- What is the lowest life expectancy recorded in Faroe Islands?
- The lowest recorded value was 60.57 years in 1950.
- How does Faroe Islands rank for life expectancy?
- Faroe Islands ranks 56th out of 236 countries with data for 2023.
- Is life expectancy rising or falling in Faroe Islands?
- Over the last ten years it is up 1.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Faroe Islands data come from?
- The figures come from Riley (2005); Zijdeman et al. (2015); HMD (2025); UN WPP (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data, published as part of Life expectancy. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
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.