Costa Rica vs Maldives: Life expectancy

Costa Rica

80.8 years

in 2023

Maldives

81.04 years

in 2023

Costa Rica rank

51st

Maldives rank

49th

Life expectancy over time

Costa Rica
Maldives

How they compare

Maldives currently reports 81.04 years against 80.8 years in Costa Rica, a difference of 0.2417 years.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Costa Rica ahead.

Globally, Costa Rica ranks 51st and Maldives ranks 49th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Costa Rica
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.