Iceland's life expectancy rose from 78.0 yrs in 1995 to 82.8 yrs in 2024.
Iceland · Health
Longevity, mortality, health system capacity and risk factors.
23 indicators · 22 with data
Iceland's healthy life expectancy at birth rose from 69.1 yrs in 2000 to 71.4 yrs in 2021.
Iceland's infant mortality fell from 4.1 ‰ in 1995 to 2.1 ‰ in 2024.
Iceland's under-5 mortality rate fell from 5.2 ‰ in 1995 to 2.8 ‰ in 2024.
Iceland's maternal mortality ratio fell from 9.0 /100k in 1994 to 3.0 /100k in 2023.
Iceland's ncd mortality fell from 13.2 % in 2000 to 8.5 % in 2021.
Iceland's suicide mortality rate fell from 13.3 /100k in 2000 to 11.9 /100k in 2021.
Iceland's mortality caused by road traffic injury fell from 11.8 /100k in 2000 to 2.0 /100k in 2019.
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- Health spendingup +0.3 pts13th of 22
- Current health expenditure per capita (current US$)up +8.2 %2nd of 22
- Out-of-pocket expenditure (% of current health expenditure)up +0.2 pts13th of 22
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- Physiciansdown −1.5 %8th of 63
- Nurses and midwivesup +1.4 %2nd of 79
- Hospital bedsup +1.1 %62nd of 132*
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- Immunization, measles (% of children ages 12–23 months)up +6.0 pts31st of 192
- Immunization, DPT (% of children ages 12–23 months)up +2.0 pts66th of 192
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- Prevalence of HIV (ages 15–49)unchanged +0.0 pts1st of 148
- Incidence of tuberculosisdown −16.7 %18th of 208
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- Safe drinking waterunchanged +0.0 pts1st of 148
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- Safe sanitationNo data