Malta vs Sweden: Life expectancy

Malta

83.3 years

in 2023

Sweden

83.26 years

in 2023

Malta rank

19th

Sweden rank

21st

Life expectancy over time

Malta
Sweden

How they compare

Malta currently reports 83.3 years against 83.26 years in Sweden, a difference of 0.0365 years.

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

Globally, Malta ranks 19th and Sweden ranks 21st of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Malta
Life expectancy in Sweden
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.