Ethiopia vs Malawi: Life expectancy

Ethiopia

67.31 years

in 2023

Malawi

67.35 years

in 2023

Ethiopia rank

191st

Malawi rank

189th

Life expectancy over time

Ethiopia
Malawi

How they compare

Malawi currently reports 67.35 years against 67.31 years in Ethiopia, a difference of 0.0385 years.

The two have swapped places 7 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Ethiopia ahead.

Globally, Ethiopia ranks 191st and Malawi ranks 189th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Ethiopia
Life expectancy in Malawi
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.