Life expectancy in Sweden

83.3

years at birth · 2023

21st highest of 235 countries

In 2013: 81.9

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Nearby in the ranking

  1. Norway 83.3
  2. Malta 83.3
  3. Guernsey 83.3
  4. Sweden 83.3
  5. Macao 83.1
  6. Vatican 83.0
  7. United Arab Emirates 82.9

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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