Malta vs Norway: Life expectancy

Malta

83.3 years

in 2023

Norway

83.31 years

in 2023

Malta rank

19th

Norway rank

18th

Life expectancy over time

Malta
Norway

How they compare

Norway currently reports 83.31 years against 83.3 years in Malta, a difference of 0.0089 years.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Norway ahead.

Globally, Malta ranks 19th and Norway ranks 18th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Malta
Life expectancy in Norway
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.