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New Zealand — Life expectancy
Life Expectancy at Birth for New Zealand, 1960–2024.
Latest value · 2024
82.0
Life Expectancy at Birth · years · +15.1% since 1960
Life expectancy for New Zealand was 82.0 in 2024, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 65 years, from 1960 to 2024. The highest recorded value was 82.3 in 2020. The lowest was 71.0 in 1961 (about 1.2× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to 0.22% per year.
New Zealand ranks 35 of 217 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 16%. The median for East Asia & Pacific is 73.0, so New Zealand sits above it. It peaked in 2020 and has fallen 0% since. Over the last decade (2014–2024) the figure moved up 1%.
Key figures
Latest (2024)
82.0
First (1960)
71.2
Change
+15.1%
Highest
82.3
in 2020
Lowest
71.0
in 1961
Average
76.3
Annual growth (CAGR)
0.22%
Years of data
65
Recent years
| Year | years |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 82.01 |
| 2023 | 81.76 |
| 2022 | 81.96 |
| 2021 | 82.21 |
| 2020 | 82.26 |
| 2019 | 82.06 |
| 2018 | 81.71 |
| 2017 | 81.86 |
| 2016 | 81.66 |
| 2015 | 81.61 |
| 2014 | 81.46 |
| 2013 | 81.4 |
Reading this correctly. Number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of birth stayed the same throughout its life. Figures are in years. Comparing this series with a different measure of the same concept (for example a nominal figure against a purchasing-power-parity figure) will give misleading results.
Related data
Source. World Bank Open Data, indicator
SP.DYN.LE00.IN — Life Expectancy at Birth. Data licensed under CC BY 4.0. Values are reproduced as published; this page computes the summary statistics (change, CAGR, extremes) from the underlying annual series. View the original dataset on data.worldbank.org.