Denmark vs Greece: Life expectancy

Denmark

81.93 years

in 2023

Greece

81.86 years

in 2023

Denmark rank

39th

Greece rank

41st

Life expectancy over time

Denmark
Greece

How they compare

Denmark currently reports 81.93 years against 81.86 years in Greece, a difference of 0.076 years.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 89 shared years of data; in 1877 it was Denmark ahead.

Denmark ranks 39th and Greece ranks 41st of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Denmark
Life expectancy in Greece
Full country ranking

About this data

Indicator: Life expectancy
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: 06 August 2026

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.