Madagascar vs Zimbabwe: Life expectancy

Madagascar

63.63 years

in 2023

Zimbabwe

62.77 years

in 2023

Madagascar rank

217th

Zimbabwe rank

219th

Life expectancy over time

Madagascar
Zimbabwe

How they compare

Madagascar currently reports 63.63 years against 62.77 years in Zimbabwe, a difference of 0.8569 years.

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

Globally, Madagascar ranks 217th and Zimbabwe ranks 219th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Madagascar
Life expectancy in Zimbabwe
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.