France vs Malta: Life expectancy

France

83.33 years

in 2023

Malta

83.3 years

in 2023

France rank

17th

Malta rank

19th

Life expectancy over time

France
Malta

How they compare

France currently reports 83.33 years against 83.3 years in Malta, a difference of 0.0264 years.

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

Globally, France ranks 17th and Malta ranks 19th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in France
Life expectancy in Malta
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.