Life expectancy in Denmark
81.9
years at birth · 2023
39th highest of 235 countries
In 2013: 80.3
Nearby in the ranking
- New Zealand 82.1
- Guadeloupe 82.1
- Austria 82.0
- Denmark 81.9
- Finland 81.9
- Greece 81.9
- Puerto Rico 81.7
More about Denmark
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About the 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.
- Unit
- years at birth
- Years
- 1950–2023
- Data as of
- 2026-09-28
- Source
- Our World in Data
- License
- CC BY 4.0
- Credit
- Our World in Data; Riley (2005); Zijdeman et al. (2015); HMD (2025); UN WPP (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data. CC BY 4.0