Luxembourg vs Netherlands: Life expectancy

Luxembourg

82.23 years

in 2023

Netherlands

82.16 years

in 2023

Luxembourg rank

33rd

Netherlands rank

34th

Life expectancy over time

Luxembourg
Netherlands

How they compare

Luxembourg currently reports 82.23 years against 82.16 years in Netherlands, a difference of 0.0718 years.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 123 shared years of data; in 1901 it was Netherlands ahead.

Luxembourg ranks 33rd and Netherlands ranks 34th of 236 regions.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Luxembourg
Life expectancy in Netherlands
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.