Life expectancy: South Korea

84.3288 years in 2023, the latest year published. Figures for 82 years from 1908 to 2023 are below.

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.

Source: Riley (2005); Zijdeman et al. (2015); HMD (2025); UN WPP (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data. Source and method · All countries and regions.

Every year

YearValue (years)
202384.3288
202282.727
202183.8517
202083.6752
201983.6846
201883.34
201783.2784
201682.9204
201582.5404
201482.3641
201381.8356
201281.3075
201181.1685
201080.7172
200980.5504
200879.9956
200779.4323
200679.0348
200578.4486
200477.9571
200377.4974
200277.2304
200176.9195
200076.2351
199975.6173
199875.035
199774.5313
199674.0207
199573.3752
199472.889
199372.7453
199272.1755
199171.4024
199070.9936
198970.684
198870.1603
198769.315
198669.0349
198568.4083
198468.1088
198366.7252
198267.0612
198167.1406
198064.8484
197966.1067
197864.9607
197764.6207
197665.0115
197564.667
197464.2389
197363.7732
197263.2199
197162.6697
197062.1754
196961.426
196860.8684
196760.8709
196655.4226
196555.7837
196455.3355
196354.9881
196255.0328
196154.444
196053.7567
195952.9353
195851.8362
195751.5543
195650.2037
195548.3534
195446.0778
195340.5054
195236.5663
195126.6418
195022.2262
194244.889
193842.571
193337.388
192833.605
192329.534
191826.977
191324.981
190823.508