Kenya vs Madagascar: Life expectancy

Kenya

63.65 years

in 2023

Madagascar

63.63 years

in 2023

Kenya rank

216th

Madagascar rank

217th

Life expectancy over time

Kenya
Madagascar

How they compare

Kenya currently reports 63.65 years against 63.63 years in Madagascar, a difference of 0.0142 years.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Madagascar ahead.

Globally, Kenya ranks 216th and Madagascar ranks 217th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Kenya
Life expectancy in Madagascar
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.