European ranking
26 / 35
Worsened by 4 positions since the previous year
Malta: Life expectancy at birth
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Country overview
Malta
Current reading for Life expectancy at birth in a European context.
Eurostat indicator: Life expectancy at birth
Latest value
83.00 Years
Compared with Europe
+2.2 puntos
Malta is 2.2 points above the European average.
EU: 80.77
Affected population
574.2K
Year: 2025
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Indicator: Life expectancy at birth
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At a glance
Malta performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Life expectancy at birth, with a large gap. The trend context points to recent reversal. The wider topic context points to broader relative strength.
European comparison in Malta
In Malta, Life expectancy stands clearly better than the European benchmark: 83.0 years versus 80.8 years in 2024, a large gap of 2.2 years.
Recent trend
In Malta, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 82.7 years in 2019 to 83.0 years in 2024. The latest step, from 83.4 years in 2023 to 83.0 years in 2024, reverses the previous direction and shows recent deterioration.
Reading within the topic
In Malta, the evidence for Quality of Life & Household Conditions leans towards relatively favourable performance compared with Europe, without a clear pressure signal dominating the picture. No material recent change is detected among related indicators.