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Ireland - Life Expectancy 2015

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Life expectancy at birth, total · World Bank

81.5 +0.1 from 2014 Global rank: 31st

Ireland's life expectancy was 81.5 in 2015, increased +0.1 from 81.3 in 2014. This was the 31st highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2015▾

Life Expectancy by Country - 2015
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Monaco	85.3	0.3%
2nd	San Marino	84.6	0.2%
3rd	Andorra	84.5	0.1%
4th	Hong Kong SAR, China	84.3	0.4%
5th	Japan	83.8	0.2%
6th	Macao SAR, China	83.2	0.2%
7th	Switzerland	82.9	-0.4%
8th	Spain	82.8	-0.5%
9th	Singapore	82.7	0.3%
10th	Gibraltar	82.7	0.0%
11th	Liechtenstein	82.7	0.7%
12th	Italy	82.5	-0.7%
13th	Iceland	82.5	-0.5%
14th	Australia	82.4	0.1%
15th	French Polynesia	82.3	0.2%
16th	France	82.3	-0.5%
17th	Norway	82.3	0.2%
18th	Luxembourg	82.3	0.1%
19th	Sweden	82.2	-0.1%
20th	United Arab Emirates	82.1	0.1%
21st	Israel	82.1	-0.1%
22nd	Korea	82.0	0.4%
23rd	Malta	81.9	-0.2%
24th	Canada	81.8	0.1%
25th	Faroe Islands	81.8	0.2%
26th	Qatar	81.8	0.5%
27th	New Zealand	81.6	0.2%
28th	Netherlands	81.5	-0.2%
29th	Finland	81.5	0.4%
30th	Cyprus	81.5	0.2%
31st	Ireland	81.5	0.1%
32nd	Channel Islands	81.4	-0.2%
33rd	Austria	81.2	-0.4%
34th	Portugal	81.1	0.0%
35th	Greece	81.0	-0.4%
36th	Belgium	81.0	-0.4%
37th	United Kingdom	81.0	-0.4%
38th	Slovenia	80.8	-0.4%
39th	Denmark	80.7	0.0%
40th	Puerto Rico (US)	80.7	0.8%
41st	Germany	80.6	-0.6%
42nd	European Union	80.6	-0.4%
43rd	Costa Rica	80.4	0.2%
44th	Bahrain	80.3	0.2%
45th	Bermuda	80.3	0.2%
46th	Isle of Man	80.3	0.1%
47th	Chile	80.0	0.4%
48th	St. Martin (French part)	79.8	0.1%
49th	Kuwait	79.4	0.4%
50th	Oman	79.3	0.4%
51st	Virgin Islands (US)	79.0	0.2%
52nd	United States	78.7	-0.2%
53rd	Maldives	78.6	0.5%
54th	Czechia	78.6	-0.3%
55th	Albania	78.4	0.4%
56th	Lebanon	78.3	0.2%
57th	Cayman Islands	78.1	0.3%
58th	Saudi Arabia	77.8	0.9%
59th	Cuba	77.7	-0.1%
60th	Estonia	77.6	0.7%
61st	Panama	77.6	0.3%
62nd	Poland	77.5	-0.2%
63rd	Northern Mariana Islands	77.4	0.0%
64th	Turks and Caicos Islands	77.3	0.1%
65th	Uruguay	77.3	0.1%
66th	Croatia	77.3	-0.6%
67th	New Caledonia	77.2	0.2%
68th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	77.1	0.0%
69th	China	77.0	0.3%
70th	Antigua and Barbuda	76.9	0.0%
71st	Montenegro	76.6	0.3%
72nd	Argentina	76.6	0.4%
73rd	Slovak Republic	76.6	-0.3%
74th	Thailand	76.6	0.4%
75th	British Virgin Islands	76.6	0.0%
76th	Türkiye	76.5	0.1%
77th	Curaçao	76.5	0.1%
78th	Guam	76.4	0.0%
79th	Ecuador	76.2	0.1%
80th	Colombia	76.1	0.2%
81st	Barbados	76.1	0.2%
82nd	Kosovo	76.0	-0.2%
83rd	Sri Lanka	76.0	0.3%
84th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	75.9	0.4%
85th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	75.9	0.2%
86th	Peru	75.7	0.6%
87th	Hungary	75.6	-0.3%
88th	Aruba	75.4	0.2%
89th	North Macedonia	75.4	-0.1%
90th	Malaysia	75.3	-0.1%
91st	Serbia	75.3	-0.1%
92nd	Algeria	75.2	0.2%
93rd	Brazil	75.1	0.4%
94th	Jordan	75.1	0.6%
95th	Grenada	75.0	0.0%
96th	Romania	74.9	0.0%
97th	Brunei Darussalam	74.9	0.0%
98th	Tunisia	74.9	0.1%
99th	Armenia	74.9	0.0%
100th	Bulgaria	74.6	0.2%
101st	West Bank and Gaza	74.6	2.5%
102nd	Latvia	74.5	0.5%
103rd	Mexico	74.4	0.0%
104th	Mauritius	74.4	0.2%
105th	Lithuania	74.3	-0.3%
106th	Seychelles	74.3	1.5%
107th	Cabo Verde	74.1	0.4%
108th	Viet Nam	74.0	0.1%
109th	Bahamas, The	73.8	-0.3%
110th	Belarus	73.6	0.9%
111th	Paraguay	73.5	0.1%
112th	Georgia	73.2	0.2%
113th	Dominican Republic	73.0	-0.2%
114th	St. Lucia	72.9	0.4%
115th	Nicaragua	72.9	0.1%
116th	Morocco	72.9	0.5%
117th	Trinidad and Tobago	72.9	0.0%
118th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	72.8	0.5%
119th	Ukraine	72.7	1.2%
120th	American Samoa	72.7	0.0%
121st	Azerbaijan	72.3	0.6%
122nd	Jamaica	72.2	-0.2%
123rd	Kazakhstan	72.0	0.9%
124th	Tonga	71.9	0.2%
125th	Belize	71.6	0.3%
126th	Libya	71.6	0.5%
127th	Greenland	71.5	0.6%
128th	Uzbekistan	71.3	0.5%
129th	Honduras	71.3	0.4%
130th	St. Kitts and Nevis	71.2	0.0%
131st	Russian Federation	71.2	0.6%
132nd	Samoa	71.1	-0.1%
133rd	El Salvador	71.0	-0.3%
134th	Guatemala	70.9	0.0%
135th	Mongolia	70.8	0.3%
136th	Bhutan	70.8	0.4%
137th	Kyrgyz Republic	70.7	0.4%
138th	Suriname	70.6	0.3%
139th	Bangladesh	70.5	0.8%
140th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	70.5	0.2%
141st	Vanuatu	70.2	0.2%
142nd	Egypt, Arab Republic of	70.1	0.3%
143rd	Moldova	70.1	-0.2%
144th	Iraq	70.0	0.4%
145th	Dominica	70.0	-1.7%
146th	Tajikistan	69.7	0.0%
147th	Indonesia	69.5	0.3%
148th	Philippines	69.5	0.2%
149th	Cambodia	69.4	0.4%
150th	India	69.3	0.6%
151st	Solomon Islands	69.3	0.5%
152nd	Palau	69.1	0.0%
153rd	Turkmenistan	69.1	0.1%
154th	Guyana	67.7	0.6%
155th	Nepal	67.4	-0.6%
156th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	67.2	0.4%
157th	Yemen, Republic of	66.8	-1.8%
158th	Lao PDR	66.7	0.5%
159th	Mauritania	66.5	0.4%
160th	Fiji	66.5	-0.2%
161st	Senegal	66.5	0.7%
162nd	Gabon	66.3	0.4%
163rd	São Tomé and Principe	66.0	0.8%
164th	Eritrea	65.9	0.6%
165th	Kiribati	65.8	-0.1%
166th	Pakistan	65.6	0.4%
167th	Rwanda	65.4	0.5%
168th	Tuvalu	65.4	0.1%
169th	Timor-Leste	65.3	0.5%
170th	Micronesia, Federated States of	65.3	0.0%
171st	Marshall Islands	65.3	0.3%
172nd	Myanmar	65.3	0.5%
173rd	Comoros	64.5	0.5%
174th	Papua New Guinea	64.5	0.4%
175th	Sudan	64.4	0.6%
176th	South Africa	64.1	1.4%
177th	Tanzania	63.9	0.9%
178th	Uganda	63.8	1.2%
179th	Congo, Republic of	63.7	0.5%
180th	Madagascar	63.4	0.2%
181st	Syrian Arab Republic	63.3	-3.4%
182nd	Haiti	63.2	0.4%
183rd	Botswana	63.2	1.7%
184th	Ghana	63.2	0.5%
185th	Gambia, The	63.0	0.6%
186th	Djibouti	62.8	0.7%
187th	Malawi	62.3	1.1%
188th	Kenya	62.3	0.5%
189th	Afghanistan	62.3	0.0%
190th	Angola	61.0	1.1%
191st	Nauru	60.9	0.1%
192nd	Zambia	60.7	1.0%
193rd	Equatorial Guinea	60.6	0.7%
194th	Burundi	60.1	0.6%
195th	Guinea-Bissau	60.1	1.0%
196th	Namibia	60.0	1.2%
197th	Cameroon	59.7	0.9%
198th	Liberia	59.2	0.1%
199th	Togo	59.2	0.8%
200th	Benin	59.1	0.2%
201st	Zimbabwe	59.0	1.5%
202nd	Niger	58.9	0.3%
203rd	Burkina Faso	58.8	0.8%
204th	Mozambique	58.7	1.3%
205th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	58.7	0.7%
206th	Côte d'Ivoire	58.3	0.9%
207th	Guinea	57.9	0.6%
208th	Mali	57.9	0.6%
209th	Sierra Leone	55.5	2.2%
210th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	55.1	1.1%
211th	Eswatini	54.9	2.7%
212th	Nigeria	51.9	0.0%
213th	Central African Republic	51.9	29.0%
214th	Lesotho	51.8	2.1%
215th	Chad	51.3	0.4%
216th	South Sudan	39.8	-12.9%

FAQ

What was Ireland's life expectancy in 2015?▾

Ireland's life expectancy in 2015 was 81.5. This ranked 31st globally.

How did Ireland's life expectancy change in 2015?▾

Ireland's life expectancy increased by 0.1% in 2015 compared to 2014.

Which country had the highest life expectancy in 2015?▾

Monaco had the highest life expectancy in 2015 at 85.3.

What is the life expectancy of Ireland in 2015?▾

The life expectancy of Ireland in 2015 was 81.5. This ranked 31st globally.

How does 2015 compare to 2014 for Ireland's life expectancy?▾

Ireland's life expectancy went from 81.3 in 2014 to 81.5 in 2015, a 0.1% increase.

HistorySaid - pattern alert

Ireland matched the Export Boom Cycle pattern in 2015. Historically: 768 occurrences, 546 successful (71%). View full analysis →

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