Where you could be born / Europe / Northern Europe
Born in Guernsey
About 1 in 264,220 people born in 2023 started life in Guernsey. A boy can expect to live 81 years and a girl 86, up from 68 and 75 in 1950.
Life and health
Life lasts about 12 years longer than in 1950. Child deaths fell from 31 in every 1,000 births to 6.7.
GirlsBoys
Years a baby born that year could expect to live.
In every 1,000 births.
Family
Women had 2.3 children on average in 1950. Now it is 1.4, below the 2.1 it takes to keep a population steady.
Average over a lifetime.
Daily life
The largest city is Saint Peter Port, with 16,488 people.
Safety nets
100% of older people receive a pension. Help for someone who loses a job reaches 100%.
Events in the data
The game draws real events from these records, so a life lived here can meet them.
Now live it.
Born in Guernsey, to a family drawn from these numbers. Every life replays exactly from its seed.
Elsewhere in Europe
How to read the sources. Every figure is sourced to a named dataset, shown beside it. A figure marked "Extrapolated" is estimated by a model because no survey covers the year. UN figures are for 2023, the latest year of UN estimates; other figures are the latest year their dataset has. Rank 1 is the highest figure among 230 countries and territories. All sources and licences