Bangladesh vs Maldives: Difference in male and female life expectancy

Bangladesh
3.03
in 2023
Maldives
3.08
in 2023
Bangladesh rank
212th
Maldives rank
209th

Difference in male and female life expectancy over time

  • Bangladesh
  • Maldives
-5051015195019862023

How they compare

Maldives currently reports 3.08 against 3.03 in Bangladesh, a difference of 0.05.

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

Bangladesh ranks 212th and Maldives ranks 209th of 236 countries.

Across the 8 decades both report, Bangladesh averaged higher in 2 and Maldives in 6.

Head to head by decade

Decade Bangladesh Maldives Difference Ahead
1950s -1.96 0.1006 2.06 Maldives
1960s -2.53 -0.3642 2.16 Maldives
1970s -1.02 -0.0754 0.943 Maldives
1980s -1.64 0.7802 2.43 Maldives
1990s -0.3329 1.52 1.86 Maldives
2000s 1.79 2.27 0.4819 Maldives
2010s 3.57 2.69 0.8768 Bangladesh
2020s 3.23 2.96 0.2633 Bangladesh

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher difference in male and female life expectancy, Bangladesh or Maldives?
Maldives, at 3.08 against 3.03 in Bangladesh as of 2023.
What is the difference in difference in male and female life expectancy between Bangladesh and Maldives?
0.05, with Maldives ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Bangladesh and Maldives?
74 years are reported by both, from 1950 to 2023.
How do Bangladesh and Maldives rank globally for difference in male and female life expectancy?
Bangladesh ranks 212th and Maldives ranks 209th of 236 countries.
Where does this data come from?
Our World in Data, published as Difference in male and female life expectancy. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

Individual pages

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

Bangladesh vs Maldives: Difference in male and female life expectancy. Statizoid, drawing on Our World in Data. Retrieved 11 November 2026, from https://health.statizoid.com/compare/difference-in-male-and-female-life-expectancy/bangladesh/maldives/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://health.statizoid.com/compare/difference-in-male-and-female-life-expectancy/bangladesh/maldives/">Bangladesh vs Maldives: Difference in male and female life expectancy</a> — Statizoid

About this data

Indicator
Difference in male and female life expectancy
Source
Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
236 places, 18,722 data points, 1751–2023
Last refreshed