Malawi vs East Timor: Life expectancy

Malawi

67.35 years

in 2023

East Timor

67.69 years

in 2023

Malawi rank

189th

East Timor rank

186th

Life expectancy over time

Malawi
East Timor

How they compare

East Timor currently reports 67.69 years against 67.35 years in Malawi, a difference of 0.3359 years.

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

Globally, Malawi ranks 189th and East Timor ranks 186th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Malawi
Life expectancy in East Timor
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.