Sweden · Life Expectancy at Birth (WHO)

82.7 years2021

Unit: years. Publisher measure: Life expectancy at birth (years).

Life expectancy at birth for the country population, both sexes, under the mortality rates of the reference year.

Measurement basis: WHO modelled period life-table estimates based on sex- and age-specific mortality.

Reference-period cadence: annual.

Source update cadence: biennial. This does not establish a publication date for an individual reading.

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World Health Organization (Global Health Observatory); retrieved 2026-09-07. Retrieval time is separate from an official publisher release vintage.

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Reported estimates and uncertainty · 22 rows

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Reported estimates and independently qualified uncertainty endpoints
CountryYearReadingLower endpointUpper endpointPublisher note
Sweden200079.5741882879.5073299579.64104661
Sweden200179.6692099679.6614730479.74789959
Sweden200279.7565034779.7500015579.8339912
Sweden200380.0064390980.0039004280.08406684
Sweden200480.3521432380.3404629380.42828756
Sweden200580.424371980.4232121480.49170362
Sweden200680.6311322280.5486592380.71360521
Sweden200780.7730007280.7703860180.84811581
Sweden200880.928016380.9257816580.99819327
Sweden200981.148190481.0789274381.21745336
Sweden201081.3046577181.3024680481.37704627
Sweden201181.5227417181.5164427181.59512564
Sweden201281.4662476881.3872121181.54528326
Sweden201381.6407518381.6307157681.72007813
Sweden201481.9275007881.9193766982.00617821
Sweden201581.7423945681.7349377281.81952392
Sweden201682.0094396281.9996738682.08204614
Sweden201782.084596382.0734867882.16849256
Sweden201882.2016371282.190621582.27360284
Sweden201982.7141463782.7014631382.79706738
Sweden202082.0820083682.0732060982.16588803
Sweden202182.664909282.3921038282.99816877

One row per country, indicator and year, with raw values, source links and reuse notices. Thresholds have an empty numeric value and separate number/operator fields; value_kind distinguishes upper bounds from absent readings.