Life expectancy in Japan
84.7
years at birth · 2023
4th highest of 235 countries
In 2013: 83.4
Nearby in the ranking
- Monaco 86.4
- San Marino 85.7
- Hong Kong 85.5
- Japan 84.7
- South Korea 84.3
- St-Barthélemy 84.3
- Fr. Polynesia 84.1
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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