84.2
years, 2024
High trust, 88 of 100 2 good sources agree closely.
- UN WPP
- Eurostat
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| Year | UN World Population Prospects 2024 | Eurostat, life expectancy by age and sex (demo_mlexpec) |
|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 65.34 | – |
| 1951 | 65.85 | – |
| 1952 | 66.23 | – |
| 1953 | 66.89 | – |
| 1954 | 67.55 | – |
| 1955 | 68.31 | – |
| 1956 | 68.89 | – |
| 1957 | 69.58 | – |
| 1958 | 70.11 | – |
| 1959 | 70.6 | – |
| 1960 | 70.9 | – |
| 1961 | 70.97 | – |
| 1962 | 70.88 | – |
| 1963 | 70.93 | – |
| 1964 | 71.07 | – |
| 1965 | 71.24 | – |
| 1966 | 71.64 | – |
| 1967 | 72.02 | – |
| 1968 | 72.35 | – |
| 1969 | 72.55 | – |
| 1970 | 72.82 | – |
| 1971 | 73.03 | – |
| 1972 | 73.37 | – |
| 1973 | 73.65 | – |
| 1974 | 74.02 | – |
| 1975 | 74.33 | – |
| 1976 | 74.57 | – |
| 1977 | 74.77 | – |
| 1978 | 74.71 | – |
| 1979 | 74.74 | – |
| 1980 | 74.78 | – |
| 1981 | 74.95 | – |
| 1982 | 75.06 | – |
| 1983 | 75.71 | – |
| 1984 | 76.19 | – |
| 1985 | 76.73 | – |
| 1986 | 77.23 | – |
| 1987 | 77.75 | – |
| 1988 | 77.99 | – |
| 1989 | 78.28 | – |
| 1990 | 78.51 | – |
| 1991 | 78.66 | – |
| 1992 | 78.65 | – |
| 1993 | 78.45 | – |
| 1994 | 78.18 | 78.7 |
| 1995 | 77.92 | 77.5 |
| 1996 | 77.67 | 76.8 |
| 1997 | 77.6 | 76.2 |
| 1998 | 77.81 | 77.9 |
| 1999 | 78.15 | 79.3 |
| 2000 | 78.58 | 77 |
| 2001 | 79.19 | 79.3 |
| 2002 | 79.76 | 79.8 |
| 2003 | 80.24 | 80.1 |
| 2004 | 80.73 | 82 |
| 2005 | 81.12 | 80.7 |
| 2006 | 81.4 | 81 |
| 2007 | 81.64 | 81.4 |
| 2008 | 81.86 | 82.9 |
| 2009 | 81.94 | 81.7 |
| 2010 | 82.05 | 81.8 |
| 2011 | 82.16 | 81.9 |
| 2012 | 82.25 | 82.5 |
| 2013 | 82.37 | 82.5 |
| 2014 | 82.55 | 82.1 |
| 2015 | 82.76 | 82.5 |
| 2016 | 82.89 | 82.1 |
| 2017 | 83.11 | 83.3 |
| 2018 | 83.27 | 83 |
| 2019 | 83.4 | 84 |
| 2020 | 82.04 | 81.7 |
| 2021 | 82.79 | 83.6 |
| 2022 | 83.41 | 83.6 |
| 2023 | 83.63 | 83.8 |
| 2024 | – | 84.2 |
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Liechtenstein among 237 countries
4 have a higher figure and 231 a lower one. Definitions differ between countries, and their years run from 2023 to 2025.
Liechtenstein 84.2
Lowest: Nigeria, 54.46Highest: Monaco, 86.37
What this number counts
- Counts
- Life expectancy at birth, both sexes: the years a newborn would live if the death rates by age of that year stayed the same for life (a period life table)
- Where
- Liechtenstein
- When
- Latest year each source has: UN WPP 2023, Eurostat 2024, World Bank 2024 (each source's latest year)
Where the number comes from (3 sources)
| Source | Figure and year | Definition | Quality | Counts for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
UN World Population Prospects 2024United Nations, Population Division · Model-based estimateRetrieved 2026-11-02 | 83.632023 | Column LEx: life expectancy at birth, both sexes, for the calendar year, from the UN's modelled period life tables (methodology report, PDF page 69).Estimates run to 2023; later years in the file are projections and are left out. Raw file: WPP2024_Demographic_Indicators_Medium.csv.gz (last modified 13 December 2024). | 4 of 5 checks
| 41% |
Eurostat, life expectancy by age and sex (demo_mlexpec)Eurostat · Death and health registersRetrieved 2026-11-02 | 84.22024 | Life expectancy at age under 1 year, both sexes, calculated by Eurostat as a period life table from deaths by age and population reported by the national statistical office.Raw file: demo_mlexpec_T_Y_LT1.json (Eurostat, updated 2026-09-25). | 4 of 5 checks
| 59% |
World Bank, World Development Indicators (SP.DYN.LE00.IN)World Bank · Death and health registersRetrieved 2026-11-02 | 84.22024 | Life expectancy at birth, total.World Bank collects no deaths of its own; it names UN World Population Prospects, national statistical offices and Eurostat as its sources. World Bank's 2024 value is reproduced by (female + 1.05 x male) / 2.05 from the Eurostat figures for 2024 (women 86.3, men 82.2). Raw file: SP.DYN.LE00.IN_2015-2026.json. No series is stored because the World Bank series blends several sources. | 3 of 5 checks
| Not counted |
- UN WPP41%
- Eurostat59%
Shown but not counted: World Bank (republishes Eurostat).
How the trust score was worked out
- Quality32 / 40
How well the sources are made
- Agreement29.6 / 30
How close the sources are to each other
- Independence16 / 20
How many separate ways the number was measured
- Freshness10 / 10
How recent the newest data is
Who reports it, and since when
- Eurostat, 2014: Eurostat flags a break: from 2014 it calculates life tables up to age 95 and over, previously up to 85 and over. source
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figure no figure here, inside its range no later figure recorded change
Why the numbers differ
- Every source here is a period life table: it applies one year's death rates by age to a newborn for a whole life. It is a summary of that year's mortality, not a forecast of how long a baby born today will live, so a bad year pulls it down at once.
- Sources stop in different years, so a row counts only lines within one year of its newest source. A national population projection never counts and never sets that year, as with OECD's 2025 figures for Colombia, Mexico and Peru. WHO's downloadable file ends in 2021, a pandemic year, so WHO lines are shown with their series but not counted. The UN's estimates end in 2023, so they are not counted where OECD reports 2025: Chile, Costa Rica. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
- Where deaths are not fully registered, the figure is modelled from surveys, censuses and child-mortality estimates. In 2021 the median gap between the UN and WHO was 0.39 years in countries WHO lists under vital registration and 1.18 years in those it lists under model life tables. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
- Where deaths are well registered the sources sit close together: in 28 of 36 countries with a Eurostat figure for 2023 the UN figure is within half a year of it. Eurostat recalculates from reported deaths, and the UN fits a model to the same registers. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
- According to OECD's sources document, as read on 2 November 2026 (the copy is kept with the raw files; scripted requests to the link got HTTP 200 and, in a later check, HTTP 403), methods differ in the detail. Australia, New Zealand and Türkiye use three-year periods, and OECD averages men and women for Japan and the United Kingdom. Eurostat and Statistics Norway treat ages above 90 differently, and Mexico, Colombia and Peru report figures from population projections. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
- These lines are not fully independent. WHO uses the UN's population estimates and registered deaths the UN also uses. OECD's sources document, as read on 2 November 2026 (the copy is kept with the raw files; scripted requests to the link got HTTP 200 and, in a later check, HTTP 403), names Eurostat for 28 countries and the World Bank for 8, whose figures match the UN series, and those lines are not counted. For the United Kingdom and Türkiye, Eurostat and OECD rest on the same national registers, so only the newer of the two counts. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
Common mistakes
- Life expectancy at birth is not the age most people reach. Deaths in childhood pull the average down, so a low figure does not mean adults there usually die at that age.
- A World Bank or OECD figure is often not a second source. Check whose data it repeats before treating two matching numbers as agreement.
- A UN figure for a recent year in a country with thin registration is an estimate from a model, even when it is printed to several decimals. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
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Cite as: RealStats, “Life expectancy at birth in Liechtenstein”, updated 2026-11-02, with the original sources listed on the page.