Germany is administratively divided into 16 partly sovereign states. 13 of them are so-called area-states and 3 are city-states.
According to estimation of the United Nations, in 2023 life expectancy in Germany was 81.38 years (79.02 for male, 83.76 for female).[4]
Estimation of the World Bank Group for 2023: 80.54 years total (78.20 for male, 83.00 for female).[5]
Estimation of Eurostat for 2023: 81.1 years total (78.7 for male, 83.5 for female).[6][7]
According to estimation of the WHO for 2019, at that year life expectancy in Germany was 80.97 years (78.75 years for male and 83.19 years for female).
And healthy life expectancy was 69.44 years (69.00 years for male and 69.86 years for female).[8]
As of 2023, life expectancy in Germany is lower than in neighboring Denmark, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Sweden, Norway, France, and Switzerland. However, it is higher than in Czechia, Estonia, Poland, Slovakia, Latvia, and Lithuania.[4][5][6][7]
The official statistics of Germany, available on the Destatis website, do not include total life expectancy for the population as a whole. For a more correct comparison of regions with various differences in life expectancy for men and women, a column with the arithmetic mean of these indicators was added to the tables.
Destatis (2022/2024)
[edit]By default, the table is sorted by 2022/2024 period, the arithmetic mean.
| state | 2021/2023 | change | 2022/2024 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| male | female | sex gap | arith. mean | male | female | sex gap | arith. mean | ||
| Germany on average | 78.17 | 82.99 | 4.82 | 80.58 | 0.25 | 78.47 | 83.19 | 4.72 | 80.83 |
| Baden-Württemberg | 79.64 | 83.93 | 4.29 | 81.78 | 0.24 | 79.92 | 84.13 | 4.21 | 82.02 |
| Bavaria | 78.94 | 83.51 | 4.57 | 81.22 | 0.31 | 79.34 | 83.74 | 4.40 | 81.54 |
| Hesse | 78.63 | 83.11 | 4.48 | 80.87 | 0.21 | 78.88 | 83.28 | 4.40 | 81.08 |
| Saxony | 77.41 | 83.61 | 6.20 | 80.51 | 0.52 | 78.04 | 84.02 | 5.98 | 81.03 |
| Berlin | 78.08 | 83.17 | 5.09 | 80.62 | 0.21 | 78.37 | 83.29 | 4.92 | 80.83 |
| Rhineland-Palatinate | 78.34 | 82.92 | 4.58 | 80.63 | 0.18 | 78.60 | 83.03 | 4.43 | 80.82 |
| Hamburg | 78.14 | 82.98 | 4.84 | 80.56 | 0.19 | 78.41 | 83.10 | 4.69 | 80.76 |
| Schleswig-Holstein | 78.25 | 82.72 | 4.47 | 80.48 | 0.07 | 78.34 | 82.76 | 4.42 | 80.55 |
| Brandenburg | 77.17 | 83.09 | 5.92 | 80.13 | 0.41 | 77.66 | 83.42 | 5.76 | 80.54 |
| North Rhine-Westphalia | 77.91 | 82.43 | 4.52 | 80.17 | 0.18 | 78.13 | 82.58 | 4.45 | 80.35 |
| Lower Saxony | 77.77 | 82.59 | 4.82 | 80.18 | 0.11 | 77.96 | 82.63 | 4.67 | 80.29 |
| Thuringia | 76.76 | 82.59 | 5.83 | 79.68 | 0.58 | 77.38 | 83.14 | 5.76 | 80.26 |
| Saarland | 77.09 | 81.92 | 4.83 | 79.50 | 0.17 | 77.38 | 81.97 | 4.59 | 79.68 |
| Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | 76.24 | 82.58 | 6.34 | 79.41 | 0.25 | 76.53 | 82.78 | 6.25 | 79.66 |
| Bremen | 76.74 | 82.08 | 5.34 | 79.41 | −0.01 | 76.74 | 82.06 | 5.32 | 79.40 |
| Saxony-Anhalt | 75.49 | 82.07 | 6.58 | 78.78 | 0.32 | 75.93 | 82.27 | 6.34 | 79.10 |
Destatis (2016/2018)
[edit]This is a list of German states by life expectancy at birth (average of 2016 to 2018) according to the Federal Statistical Office of Germany.[9]
| Rank | State | Life expectancy in years (mean of both) |
Life expectancy in years (men) |
Life expectancy in years (women) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Baden-Württemberg |
81.88 | 79.66 | 84.10 |
| 2 |  Bavaria |
81.56 | 79.33 | 83.56 |
| 3 |  Hesse |
81.32 | 79.15 | 83.48 |
| 4 |  Hamburg |
80.95 | 78.53 | 83.37 |
| 5 |  Saxony |
80.94 | 77.97 | 83.91 |
| 6 |  Rhineland-Palatinate |
80.84 | 78.62 | 83.06 |
| 7 |  Berlin |
80.75 | 78.30 | 83.19 |
| 8 |  Brandenburg |
80.51 | 77.76 | 83.26 |
| 9 |  Schleswig-Holstein |
80.48 | 78.18 | 82.78 |
| 10 |  Lower Saxony |
80.47 | 78.11 | 82.82 |
| 10 |  North Rhine-Westphalia |
80.47 | 78.17 | 82.76 |
| 12 | ||||
| 15 |  Bremen |
79.83 | 77.18 | 82.47 |
| 16 |  Saxony-Anhalt |
79.46 | 76.28 | 82.63 |
 Germany |
80.88 | 78.48 | 83.27 |
Eurostat (2014—2023)
[edit]By default the table is sorted by 2023.
| code | region | 2014 | 2014 →2019 |
2019 | 2019 →2023 |
2023 | 2014 →2023 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| overall | male | female | F Δ M | overall | male | female | F Δ M | overall | male | female | F Δ M | |||||
| Germany on average | 81.2 | 78.7 | 83.6 | 4.9 | 0.1 | 81.3 | 79.0 | 83.7 | 4.7 | −0.2 | 81.1 | 78.7 | 83.5 | 4.8 | −0.1 | |
| DE14 | Tübingen | 82.4 | 79.9 | 84.8 | 4.9 | 0.0 | 82.4 | 80.3 | 84.6 | 4.3 | 0.4 | 82.8 | 80.7 | 84.8 | 4.1 | 0.4 |
| DE21 | Upper Bavaria | 82.6 | 80.4 | 84.6 | 4.2 | 0.2 | 82.8 | 80.9 | 84.7 | 3.8 | −0.1 | 82.7 | 80.6 | 84.8 | 4.2 | 0.1 |
| DE11 | Stuttgart | 82.5 | 80.2 | 84.7 | 4.5 | 0.1 | 82.6 | 80.4 | 84.7 | 4.3 | 0.0 | 82.6 | 80.4 | 84.7 | 4.3 | 0.1 |
| DE13 | Freiburg | 82.2 | 80.0 | 84.2 | 4.2 | 0.1 | 82.3 | 80.2 | 84.4 | 4.2 | 0.0 | 82.3 | 80.3 | 84.2 | 3.9 | 0.1 |
| DE27 | Swabia | 82.0 | 79.6 | 84.3 | 4.7 | 0.1 | 82.1 | 80.0 | 84.2 | 4.2 | −0.1 | 82.0 | 79.9 | 84.2 | 4.3 | 0.0 |
| DE12 | Karlsruhe | 81.9 | 79.6 | 84.0 | 4.4 | −0.1 | 81.8 | 79.6 | 84.0 | 4.4 | 0.2 | 82.0 | 79.8 | 84.1 | 4.3 | 0.1 |
| DED2 | Dresden | 81.6 | 78.6 | 84.6 | 6.0 | 0.3 | 81.9 | 79.1 | 84.8 | 5.7 | 0.0 | 81.9 | 79.0 | 85.0 | 6.0 | 0.3 |
| DE71 | Darmstadt | 81.9 | 79.7 | 83.9 | 4.2 | 0.2 | 82.1 | 80.1 | 84.0 | 3.9 | −0.4 | 81.7 | 79.6 | 83.7 | 4.1 | −0.2 |
| DE26 | Lower Franconia | 81.9 | 79.5 | 84.3 | 4.8 | 0.2 | 82.1 | 80.0 | 84.3 | 4.3 | −0.4 | 81.7 | 79.5 | 83.9 | 4.4 | −0.2 |
| DEB3 | Rheinhessen-Pfalz | 81.4 | 79.0 | 83.7 | 4.7 | −0.1 | 81.3 | 79.2 | 83.4 | 4.2 | 0.1 | 81.4 | 79.1 | 83.6 | 4.5 | 0.0 |
| DE25 | Middle Franconia | 81.2 | 78.7 | 83.7 | 5.0 | 0.1 | 81.3 | 79.0 | 83.4 | 4.4 | 0.0 | 81.3 | 79.0 | 83.6 | 4.6 | 0.1 |
| DEA2 | Cologne | 81.2 | 79.0 | 83.3 | 4.3 | 0.1 | 81.3 | 79.2 | 83.4 | 4.2 | −0.1 | 81.2 | 78.9 | 83.3 | 4.4 | 0.0 |
| DE30 | Berlin | 80.9 | 78.3 | 83.5 | 5.2 | 0.6 | 81.5 | 79.1 | 83.9 | 4.8 | −0.3 | 81.2 | 78.7 | 83.7 | 5.0 | 0.3 |
| DED5 | Leipzig | 80.8 | 77.7 | 84.0 | 6.3 | 0.2 | 81.0 | 78.1 | 84.0 | 5.9 | 0.2 | 81.2 | 78.3 | 84.3 | 6.0 | 0.4 |
| DEA4 | Detmold | 81.4 | 79.0 | 83.8 | 4.8 | 0.2 | 81.6 | 79.2 | 83.9 | 4.7 | −0.5 | 81.1 | 78.7 | 83.5 | 4.8 | −0.3 |
| DEB2 | Trier | 81.2 | 78.7 | 83.7 | 5.0 | 0.5 | 81.7 | 79.6 | 83.7 | 4.1 | −0.7 | 81.0 | 78.7 | 83.3 | 4.6 | −0.2 |
| DE22 | Lower Bavaria | 80.7 | 78.3 | 83.2 | 4.9 | 0.7 | 81.4 | 79.4 | 83.5 | 4.1 | −0.4 | 81.0 | 78.6 | 83.4 | 4.8 | 0.3 |
| DEB1 | Koblenz | 80.8 | 78.5 | 83.0 | 4.5 | 0.3 | 81.1 | 79.0 | 83.1 | 4.1 | −0.2 | 80.9 | 78.6 | 83.2 | 4.6 | 0.1 |
| DE60 | Hamburg | 81.2 | 78.7 | 83.5 | 4.8 | 0.3 | 81.5 | 79.2 | 83.8 | 4.6 | −0.6 | 80.9 | 78.5 | 83.3 | 4.8 | −0.3 |
| DEF0 | Schleswig-Holstein | 80.8 | 78.5 | 83.1 | 4.6 | 0.1 | 80.9 | 78.6 | 83.3 | 4.7 | −0.1 | 80.8 | 78.6 | 83.1 | 4.5 | 0.0 |
| DE23 | Upper Palatinate | 80.9 | 78.5 | 83.4 | 4.9 | 0.4 | 81.3 | 79.1 | 83.4 | 4.3 | −0.5 | 80.8 | 78.6 | 83.0 | 4.4 | −0.1 |
| DE72 | Giessen | 81.3 | 79.0 | 83.5 | 4.5 | −0.3 | 81.0 | 78.8 | 83.2 | 4.4 | −0.3 | 80.7 | 78.4 | 83.0 | 4.6 | −0.6 |
| DE24 | Upper Franconia | 81.0 | 78.5 | 83.4 | 4.9 | 0.2 | 81.2 | 78.7 | 83.6 | 4.9 | −0.5 | 80.7 | 78.2 | 83.2 | 5.0 | −0.3 |
| DE40 | Brandenburg | 80.7 | 77.9 | 83.5 | 5.6 | 0.5 | 81.2 | 78.4 | 84.0 | 5.6 | −0.5 | 80.7 | 77.8 | 83.7 | 5.9 | 0.0 |
| DE93 | Lüneburg | 80.7 | 78.1 | 83.4 | 5.3 | 0.2 | 80.9 | 78.5 | 83.2 | 4.7 | −0.3 | 80.6 | 78.2 | 83.0 | 4.8 | −0.1 |
| DEA3 | Münster | 80.9 | 78.4 | 83.3 | 4.9 | 0.2 | 81.1 | 78.7 | 83.4 | 4.7 | −0.5 | 80.6 | 78.2 | 82.9 | 4.7 | −0.3 |
| DED4 | Chemnitz | 80.9 | 77.8 | 83.9 | 6.1 | −0.1 | 80.8 | 77.8 | 83.9 | 6.1 | −0.2 | 80.6 | 77.5 | 83.9 | 6.4 | −0.3 |
| DE73 | Kassel | 81.2 | 78.6 | 83.6 | 5.0 | 0.1 | 81.3 | 79.0 | 83.6 | 4.6 | −0.8 | 80.5 | 78.0 | 83.1 | 5.1 | −0.7 |
| DEG0 | Thuringia | 80.6 | 77.6 | 83.6 | 6.0 | 0.1 | 80.7 | 78.0 | 83.5 | 5.5 | −0.2 | 80.5 | 77.7 | 83.5 | 5.8 | −0.1 |
| DE94 | Weser-Ems | 80.8 | 78.5 | 83.1 | 4.6 | 0.2 | 81.0 | 78.6 | 83.4 | 4.8 | −0.6 | 80.4 | 78.1 | 82.8 | 4.7 | −0.4 |
| DE92 | Hanover | 80.7 | 78.0 | 83.3 | 5.3 | 0.3 | 81.0 | 78.4 | 83.5 | 5.1 | −0.6 | 80.4 | 78.0 | 82.8 | 4.8 | −0.3 |
| DE91 | Braunschweig | 80.7 | 78.2 | 83.1 | 4.9 | −0.1 | 80.6 | 78.4 | 82.9 | 4.5 | −0.4 | 80.2 | 77.9 | 82.6 | 4.7 | −0.5 |
| DEA1 | Düsseldorf | 80.5 | 78.1 | 82.8 | 4.7 | 0.2 | 80.7 | 78.4 | 82.9 | 4.5 | −0.5 | 80.2 | 77.9 | 82.5 | 4.6 | −0.3 |
| DEC0 | Saarland | 80.2 | 77.7 | 82.6 | 4.9 | 0.0 | 80.2 | 77.9 | 82.5 | 4.6 | −0.2 | 80.0 | 77.6 | 82.4 | 4.8 | −0.2 |
| DE80 | Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | 80.4 | 77.2 | 83.7 | 6.5 | −0.1 | 80.3 | 77.3 | 83.5 | 6.2 | −0.3 | 80.0 | 76.9 | 83.3 | 6.4 | −0.4 |
| DEA5 | Arnsberg | 80.2 | 77.6 | 82.7 | 5.1 | 0.2 | 80.4 | 78.0 | 82.7 | 4.7 | −0.5 | 79.9 | 77.5 | 82.3 | 4.8 | −0.3 |
| DE50 | Bremen | 80.1 | 77.4 | 82.7 | 5.3 | 0.6 | 80.7 | 78.0 | 83.3 | 5.3 | −1.0 | 79.7 | 77.0 | 82.4 | 5.4 | −0.4 |
| DEE0 | Saxony-Anhalt | 79.8 | 76.6 | 83.0 | 6.4 | 0.2 | 80.0 | 77.0 | 83.1 | 6.1 | −0.8 | 79.2 | 76.1 | 82.4 | 6.3 | −0.6 |
Global Data Lab (2019–2022)
[edit]| region | 2019 | 2019 →2021 |
2021 | 2021 →2022 |
2022 | 2019 →2022 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| overall | male | female | F Δ M | overall | overall | male | female | F Δ M | ||||
| Germany on average | 81.56 | 79.13 | 83.97 | 4.84 | −0.93 | 80.63 | 0.36 | 80.99 | 78.51 | 83.49 | 4.98 | −0.57 |
| Baden-Württemberg | 82.49 | 80.22 | 84.72 | 4.50 | −0.63 | 81.86 | 0.34 | 82.20 | 79.94 | 84.42 | 4.48 | −0.29 |
| Bavaria | 82.22 | 80.03 | 84.38 | 4.35 | −1.01 | 81.21 | 0.49 | 81.70 | 79.34 | 84.08 | 4.74 | −0.52 |
| Hesse | 81.94 | 79.75 | 84.07 | 4.32 | −0.97 | 80.97 | 0.27 | 81.24 | 79.02 | 83.52 | 4.50 | −0.70 |
| Berlin | 81.68 | 79.18 | 84.18 | 5.00 | −0.95 | 80.73 | 0.45 | 81.18 | 78.44 | 83.84 | 5.40 | −0.50 |
| Saxony | 81.46 | 78.46 | 84.56 | 6.10 | −1.80 | 79.66 | 1.47 | 81.13 | 78.03 | 84.31 | 6.28 | −0.33 |
| Hamburg | 81.68 | 79.28 | 84.08 | 4.80 | −0.85 | 80.83 | 0.25 | 81.08 | 78.65 | 83.54 | 4.89 | −0.60 |
| Rhineland-Palatinate | 81.46 | 79.26 | 83.60 | 4.34 | −0.74 | 80.72 | 0.15 | 80.87 | 78.57 | 83.19 | 4.62 | −0.59 |
| Schleswig-Holstein | 81.08 | 78.68 | 83.58 | 4.90 | −0.35 | 80.73 | −0.05 | 80.68 | 78.34 | 82.93 | 4.59 | −0.40 |
| Brandenburg | 81.38 | 78.48 | 84.28 | 5.80 | −1.64 | 79.74 | 0.84 | 80.58 | 77.54 | 83.64 | 6.10 | −0.80 |
| North Rhine-Westphalia | 81.13 | 78.73 | 83.45 | 4.72 | −0.78 | 80.35 | 0.16 | 80.51 | 78.12 | 82.86 | 4.74 | −0.62 |
| Lower Saxony | 81.08 | 78.56 | 83.56 | 5.00 | −0.64 | 80.44 | 0.00 | 80.44 | 78.00 | 83.01 | 5.01 | −0.64 |
| Thuringia | 80.88 | 78.08 | 83.78 | 5.70 | −2.04 | 78.84 | 1.23 | 80.07 | 77.14 | 83.03 | 5.89 | −0.81 |
| Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | 80.48 | 77.38 | 83.78 | 6.40 | −1.04 | 79.44 | 0.43 | 79.87 | 76.74 | 83.13 | 6.39 | −0.61 |
| Saarland | 80.38 | 77.98 | 82.77 | 4.79 | −0.84 | 79.54 | −0.07 | 79.47 | 76.94 | 82.23 | 5.29 | −0.91 |
| Bremen | 80.88 | 78.08 | 83.58 | 5.50 | −0.94 | 79.94 | −0.47 | 79.47 | 76.74 | 82.23 | 5.49 | −1.41 |
| Saxony-Anhalt | 80.18 | 77.08 | 83.37 | 6.29 | −1.84 | 78.34 | 0.73 | 79.07 | 75.84 | 82.53 | 6.69 | −1.11 |
Data source: Global Data Lab[12]
Charts
[edit]
Development of life expectancy in Germany according to estimation of the World Bank Group[5]
Life expectancy with calculated sex gap[5]
Development of life expectancy in Germany in comparison to some big countries of the world[5]
Development of life expectancy in Germany in comparison to the largest by population European countries[5]
See also
[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Life expectancy charts for Germany.
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