Malawi vs Namibia: Life expectancy

Malawi

67.35 years

in 2023

Namibia

67.38 years

in 2023

Malawi rank

189th

Namibia rank

188th

Life expectancy over time

Malawi
Namibia

How they compare

Namibia currently reports 67.38 years against 67.35 years in Malawi, a difference of 0.0313 years.

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

Globally, Malawi ranks 189th and Namibia ranks 188th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Malawi
Life expectancy in Namibia
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.