Life expectancy of S’pore residents up from 83.7 in 2024 to 83.9 in 2025

The life expectancy for Singapore residents was 83.9 years in 2025.

According to the Department of Statistics (SingStat), this is a 0.2-year increase from 83.7 years in 2024.

Higher than pre-pandemic peak

This is also higher than the pre-pandemic peak of 83.7 years in 2019, and an improvement of 1.0 year from 82.9 years in 2015.

Respectively, resident male and female life expectancies at birth were 81.8 years and 86.0 years in 2025.

This is an improvement of 0.3 years for males and 0.2 years for females from 2024.

Over the past 10 years, male life expectancy improved by 1.3 years from 80.5 years in 2015, while female life expectancy improved by 0.9 years from 85.1 years in 2015.

Improvements for residents aged 65

Singapore residents who are 65 years old in 2025 can expect to live to 86.6 years.

This is an improvement of 0.2 years from 2024 and 0.8 years from 2015.

Male residents aged 65 in 2025 can expect to live to 84.9 years, an improvement of 1.0 years from 2015.

Female residents, aged 65 in 2025, on the other hand, can expect to live to 88.1 years, an improvement of 0.8 years from 2015.

Newborn babies

Expected survival rates of Singapore resident newborns continued to improve between 2015 and 2025.

The proportion of newborn boys expected to be alive at age 65 years increased from 89.0 per cent to 90.3 per cent, with a larger improvement in the proportion expected to be alive at age 85 years, rising from 42.3 per cent to 47.6 per cent.

Newborn girls showed better survival rates.

The proportion expected to be alive at age 65 years increased from 93.6 per cent to 94.4 per cent, while the proportion expected to be alive at age 85 years showed a larger increase from 59.0 per cent to 64.3 per cent.