Which country in Europe has the highest life expectancy?

Monaco has the highest life expectancy in Europe: 86.5 years (2024). Next come San Marino (85.8 years) and Switzerland (84.4 years).

Which country in Europe has the lowest life expectancy?

Moldova, with 71.3 years (2024).

What is the typical life expectancy of a country in Europe?

The median of the 43 countries in Europe is 81.8 years: half are above it, half below. The median, not the average, because a few countries at the top would drag an average far above almost everyone.

Where do the figures come from?

Life expectancy at birth: the years a newborn would live if the death rates of the year stayed the same all its life. Source: World Bank, 2024. Only independent states are ranked; territories are listed separately. A country’s continent follows Natural Earth; the handful of island states it files under the open ocean are placed by their UN subregion.

Countries in Europe by life expectancy

Life expectancy at birth: the years a newborn would live if the death rates of the year stayed the same all its life. 43 countries in Europe, highest first. World Bank, 2024

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Highest

86.5

Monaco

Median country

81.8

half above, half below

Lowest

71.3

Moldova

Countries in Europe by life expectancy, World Bank, 2024
#	Country	Years	Region
1	Monaco	86.5	Western Europe
2	San Marino	85.8	Southern Europe
3	Switzerland	84.4	Western Europe
=4	Andorra	84.2	Southern Europe
=4	Liechtenstein	84.2	Western Europe
6	Sweden	84.1	Northern Europe
7	Italy	84.0	Southern Europe
8	Spain	83.9	Southern Europe
=9	Luxembourg	83.2	Western Europe
=9	Norway	83.2	Northern Europe
=11	France	83.0	Western Europe
=11	Ireland	83.0	Northern Europe
=11	Malta	83.0	Southern Europe
14	Iceland	82.8	Northern Europe
15	Portugal	82.4	Southern Europe
=16	Belgium	82.3	Western Europe
=16	Denmark	82.3	Northern Europe
=16	Finland	82.3	Northern Europe
=16	Slovenia	82.3	Southern Europe
=20	Austria	82.0	Western Europe
=20	Netherlands	82.0	Western Europe
22	Greece	81.8	Southern Europe
23	United Kingdom	81.4	Northern Europe
24	Germany	80.8	Western Europe
25	Czechia	80.0	Eastern Europe
26	Albania	79.8	Southern Europe
27	Estonia	79.3	Northern Europe
28	Croatia	78.9	Southern Europe
=29	Poland	78.4	Eastern Europe
=29	Slovakia	78.4	Eastern Europe
31	Bosnia and Herzegovina	78.0	Southern Europe
32	Montenegro	77.9	Southern Europe
33	Lithuania	77.2	Northern Europe
34	Hungary	76.7	Eastern Europe
35	North Macedonia	76.6	Southern Europe
36	Romania	76.5	Eastern Europe
37	Latvia	76.4	Northern Europe
38	Serbia	76.0	Southern Europe
39	Bulgaria	75.8	Eastern Europe
40	Ukraine	74.7	Eastern Europe
41	Belarus	74.4	Eastern Europe
42	Russia	73.4	Eastern Europe
43	Moldova	71.3	Eastern Europe

No World Bank figure for Vatican City.

Territories and other places

Not ranked: dependencies of the states above, places whose status is disputed. Highest first.

Place	Years	Status
Faroe Islands	83.1	Territory of Denmark
Isle of Man	81.1	Territory of United Kingdom

Questions

Which country in Europe has the highest life expectancy?: Monaco has the highest life expectancy in Europe: 86.5 years (2024). Next come San Marino (85.8 years) and Switzerland (84.4 years).
Which country in Europe has the lowest life expectancy?: Moldova, with 71.3 years (2024).
What is the typical life expectancy of a country in Europe?: The median of the 43 countries in Europe is 81.8 years: half are above it, half below. The median, not the average, because a few countries at the top would drag an average far above almost everyone.
Where do the figures come from?: Life expectancy at birth: the years a newborn would live if the death rates of the year stayed the same all its life. Source: World Bank, 2024. Only independent states are ranked; territories are listed separately. A country’s continent follows Natural Earth; the handful of island states it files under the open ocean are placed by their UN subregion.

Source: World Bank (CC BY 4.0). Figures older than five years are left out rather than shown beside current ones. Countries sharing a value share a rank. All sources.