Chile vs Maldives: Life expectancy

Chile

81.17 years

in 2023

Maldives

81.04 years

in 2023

Chile rank

48th

Maldives rank

49th

Life expectancy over time

Chile
Maldives

How they compare

Chile currently reports 81.17 years against 81.04 years in Maldives, a difference of 0.1255 years.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Chile ahead.

Globally, Chile ranks 48th and Maldives ranks 49th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Chile
Life expectancy in Maldives
Full country ranking

About this data

Indicator: Life expectancy
Unit: years
Source: Riley (2005); Zijdeman et al. (2015); HMD (2025); UN WPP (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 236 places, 19,452 data points, 1543–2023
Last refreshed: 06 August 2026

Period life expectancy is the number of years the average person born in a certain year would live if they experienced the same chances of dying at each age as people did that year.