What is the difference in sex gap in life expectancy at different ages between Nepal and Timor-Leste?

0.11 years, with Timor-Leste ahead.

How many years of comparable data are there for Nepal and Timor-Leste?

74 years are reported by both, from 1950 to 2023.

Where does this data come from?

Human Mortality Database (2025); UN, World Population Prospects (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data, published as Sex gap in life expectancy at different ages. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

Nepal vs Timor-Leste: Sex gap in life expectancy at different ages

Nepal

2.71 years

in 2023

Timor-Leste

2.82 years

in 2023

Nepal rank

219th

Timor-Leste rank

216th

Sex gap in life expectancy at different ages over time

Nepal
Timor-Leste

How they compare

Timor-Leste currently reports 2.82 years against 2.71 years in Nepal, a difference of 0.11 years.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Timor-Leste ahead.

Nepal ranks 219th and Timor-Leste ranks 216th of 236 countries.

Across the 8 decades both report, Nepal averaged higher in 1 and Timor-Leste in 7.

Head to head by decade

Decade	Nepal	Timor-Leste	Difference	Ahead
1950s	1.54 years	2.12 years	0.5802 years	Timor-Leste
1960s	0.5505 years	2.2 years	1.65 years	Timor-Leste
1970s	0.5937 years	9.6 years	9.01 years	Timor-Leste
1980s	0.7816 years	17.35 years	16.57 years	Timor-Leste
1990s	2.55 years	3.52 years	0.9722 years	Timor-Leste
2000s	3.5 years	2.61 years	0.8904 years	Nepal
2010s	2.48 years	2.74 years	0.2547 years	Timor-Leste
2020s	2.8 years	2.9 years	0.1033 years	Timor-Leste

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher sex gap in life expectancy at different ages, Nepal or Timor-Leste?: Timor-Leste, at 2.82 years against 2.71 years in Nepal as of 2023.
What is the difference in sex gap in life expectancy at different ages between Nepal and Timor-Leste?: 0.11 years, with Timor-Leste ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Nepal and Timor-Leste?: 74 years are reported by both, from 1950 to 2023.
How do Nepal and Timor-Leste rank globally for sex gap in life expectancy at different ages?: Nepal ranks 219th and Timor-Leste ranks 216th of 236 countries.
Where does this data come from?: Human Mortality Database (2025); UN, World Population Prospects (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data, published as Sex gap in life expectancy at different ages. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

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Indicator: Sex gap in life expectancy at different ages
Unit: years
Source: Human Mortality Database (2025); UN, World Population Prospects (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 236 places, 18,722 data points, 1751–2023
Last refreshed: 28 August 2026

Difference in period life expectancy (females - males) at a given age.