Malaysia vs Serbia: Life expectancy

Malaysia

76.66 years

in 2023

Serbia

76.77 years

in 2023

Malaysia rank

100th

Serbia rank

98th

Life expectancy over time

Malaysia
Serbia

How they compare

Serbia currently reports 76.77 years against 76.66 years in Malaysia, a difference of 0.1122 years.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Serbia ahead.

Globally, Malaysia ranks 100th and Serbia ranks 98th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Malaysia
Life expectancy in Serbia
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.