Life Expectancy at Birth — World Ranking

How long a baby born today is expected to live, given the health system currently in place.

Malaysia sits at #84 of 215 countries with a value of 76.7 years — the full leaderboard is in the table below.

The top 50 — Life Expectancy at Birth

Sorted with the highest value first (a higher value counts as better), data year 2023. Flags: flagcdn; every country name links to its full profile.

#	Country	Value
1	Monaco	86.4 years
2	San Marino	85.7 years
3	Hong Kong	85.2 years
4	Liechtenstein	84.6 years
5	Switzerland	84.2 years
6	French Polynesia	84.1 years
7	Japan	84 years
8	Andorra	84 years
9	Spain	83.9 years
10	Gibraltar	83.6 years
11	South Korea	83.4 years
12	Malta	83.4 years
13	Italy	83.4 years
14	Luxembourg	83.3 years
15	Sweden	83.3 years
16	Israel	83.2 years
17	Kuwait	83.2 years
18	Macau	83.2 years
19	Singapore	83.1 years
20	Australia	83.1 years
21	Norway	83 years
22	Faroe Islands	83 years
23	United Arab Emirates	82.9 years
24	France	82.8 years
25	Ireland	82.8 years
26	Iceland	82.5 years
27	Belgium	82.4 years
28	Qatar	82.4 years
29	Portugal	82.3 years
30	Bermuda	82.3 years
31	Slovenia	81.9 years
32	Netherlands	81.9 years
33	Austria	81.8 years
34	New Zealand	81.8 years
35	Denmark	81.8 years
36	Greece	81.7 years
37	Puerto Rico	81.7 years
38	Cyprus	81.6 years
39	Canada	81.6 years
40	Finland	81.6 years
41	Bahrain	81.3 years
42	United Kingdom	81.2 years
43	Chile	81.2 years
44	Germany	81 years
45	Maldives	81 years
46	Isle of Man	81 years
47	Costa Rica	80.8 years
48	United States Virgin Islands	80.5 years
49	Cayman Islands	80.4 years
50	Saint Martin	80.2 years

Global distribution

Source: World Bank Open Data — borrowed from the Country Complex dataset — public data with no API key, licensed CC BY 4.0. The full profile of every country: Country Complex · live natural events: Disaster Complex.