Canada vs Ireland: Life expectancy vs. Electoral Democracy Index

Canada
82.63 years
in 2023
Ireland
82.41 years
in 2023
Canada rank
26th
Ireland rank
28th

Life expectancy vs. Electoral Democracy Index over time

  • Canada
  • Ireland
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How they compare

Canada currently reports 82.63 years against 82.41 years in Ireland, a difference of 0.2184 years.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 80 shared years of data; in 1901 it was Ireland ahead.

Canada ranks 26th and Ireland ranks 28th of 236 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Life expectancy vs. Electoral Democracy Index
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

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.