List of German states by life expectancy

Life expectancy in the German states in 2022/2024 for male

Life expectancy in the German states in 2022/2024 for female

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 81.7 years (78.7 years for male and 84.8 years for female). And healthy life expectancy was 70.9 years (69.7 years for male and 72.1 years for female). ^[8]

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)

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

Data source: Destatis ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Destatis (2016/2018)

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	Thuringia	80.23	77.44	83.02
13	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	79.95	76.76	83.14
14	Saarland	79.88	77.62	82.14
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)

See also: List of European regions by life expectancy

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

Data source: Eurostat ^{[10] [11]}

Life expectancy in German regions in comparison with regions of other European countries in 2019 and 2022, according to Eurostat ^{[10] [11]}
(legends on the maps are identical)

Global Data Lab (2019–2022)

Main article: List of European regions by life expectancy § Estimate of the Global Data Lab (2019—2022)

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

• 
  Development of life expectancy in Germany according to estimation of the World Bank Group ^[5]
• 
  Life expectancy with calculated sex gap ^[5]
• 
  Life expectancy in Germany according to estimation of Our World in Data ^[13]
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  Development of life expectancy in Germany in comparison to some big countries of the world ^[5]
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  Development of life expectancy in Germany in comparison to the largest by population European countries ^[5]

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  Life expectancy and healthy life expectancy in Germany on the background of other countries of the world in 2019 ^[8]
• 
  Life expectancy and healthy life expectancy for males and females separately ^[8]

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  Life expectancy and healthy life expectancy in Germany on the background of other countries of Europe in 2019 ^[8]
• 
  Life expectancy and healthy life expectancy for males and females separately ^[8]

See also

• List of countries by life expectancy
• List of European countries by life expectancy
• Demographics of Germany

References

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2. "Sterbefälle und Lebenserwartung: Durchschnittliche fernere Lebenserwartung (Periodensterbetafel) in den Bundesländern für Männer". Federal Statistical Office of Germany (in German). 22 July 2025. Retrieved 17 August 2025.
3. "Sterbefälle und Lebenserwartung: Durchschnittliche fernere Lebenserwartung (Periodensterbetafel) in den Bundesländern für Frauen". Federal Statistical Office of Germany (in German). 22 July 2025. Retrieved 17 August 2025.
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5. "Life expectancy at birth, total - Germany". World Bank Group.
6. "Life expectancy at birth by sex". Eurostat. 5 June 2025. Retrieved 24 June 2025. — Dataset
7. "Life expectancy at birth by sex". Eurostat. 5 June 2025. Retrieved 24 June 2025. — Table. For visualization use the tab "Map"
8. "Life expectancy and Healthy life expectancy, data by country". World Health Organization. 2020. Retrieved 1 February 2024.
9. "Lebenserwartung in Deutschland nach Bundesländern und Geschlecht 2015/2017 | Statistik". Statista (in German). Retrieved 2018-12-10.
10. "Life expectancy at birth by sex and NUTS 2 region". Eurostat. 21 March 2025. Retrieved 1 May 2025. — Dataset
11. "Life expectancy at birth by sex and NUTS 2 region". Eurostat. 21 March 2025. Retrieved 1 May 2025. — Table. For visualization use tab "Map"
12. "Life expectancy 2022 - Maps | Subnational HDI (v8.0)". Global Data Lab. Retrieved 15 October 2024.
13. "Life expectancy at birth: Germany". Our World in Data.

External links

• Federal Statistical Office