List of South American countries by life expectancy

This is a list of South American countries by life expectancy at birth.

World Bank Group (2021)

Estimation of the World Bank Group for 2021. ^{[1] [2] [3]} The data is filtered according to the list of countries in South America. The values in the World Bank Group tables are rounded. All calculations are based on raw data, so due to the nuances of rounding, in some places illusory inconsistencies of indicators arose, with a size of 0.01 year.

Countries	2021				Historical data									COVID-19 impact
	All	Male	Female	Sex gap	2000	2000 →2014	2014	2014 →2019	2019	2019 →2020	2020	2020 →2021	2021	2019 →2021	2014 →2021
Chile	78.94	76.47	81.44	4.97	76.87	2.60	79.47	0.85	80.33	−0.95	79.38	−0.43	78.94	−1.38	−0.53
Brazil	77.25	73.66	80.06	6.40	69.74	4.57	74.31	1.03	76.34	−1.33	74.01	-0,1	77.25	−0.10	−1.56
Uruguay	75.44	71.65	79.26	7.60	75.03	2.34	77.37	0.14	77.51	0.92	78.43	−2.99	75.44	−2.07	−1.93
Argentina	75.39	72.18	78.65	6.47	73.93	2.83	76.75	0.53	77.28	−1.39	75.89	−0.50	75.39	−1.89	−1.36
Ecuador	73.67	70.26	77.46	7.20	72.84	3.78	76.62	0.67	77.30	−5.14	72.15	1.52	73.67	−3.63	−2.95
Colombia	72.83	69.40	76.44	7.04	71.32	4.72	76.04	0.71	76.75	−1.98	74.77	−1.94	72.83	−3.92	−3.21
Peru	72.38	70.12	74.75	4.62	70.42	4.91	75.33	0.82	76.16	−2.49	73.67	−1.29	72.38	−3.78	−2.96
World	71.33	68.89	73.95	5.06	67.70	4.18	71.88	1.10	72.98	−0.74	72.24	−0.92	71.33	−1.65	−0.55
Venezuela	70.55	66.26	75.21	8.95	72.48	0.38	72.85	−0.69	72.16	−1.07	71.09	−0.54	70.55	−1.61	−2.30
Suriname	70.27	67.21	73.55	6.34	65.51	4.27	69.78	2.46	72.24	0.32	72.56	−2.29	70.27	−1.97	0.49
Paraguay	70.26	67.43	73.39	5.95	69.75	3.13	72.88	0.74	73.62	−0.44	73.18	−2.92	70.26	−3.36	−2.62
Guyana	65.67	62.48	69.10	6.62	64.48	3.40	67.88	1.24	69.12	−0.64	68.49	−2.81	65.67	−3.45	−2.21
Bolivia	63.63	60.88	66.80	5.92	62.35	4.82	67.16	0.68	67.84	−3.37	64.47	−0.84	63.63	−4.21	−3.53

Change in life expectancy in South America from 2019 to 2021 ^[1]

United Nations (2022)

Estimation of the analytical agency of the UN. ^{[4] [5] [6]} By default, the list is sorted by 2022.

Countries & territories	2019				2019 →2021	2021				2021 →2022	2022				2019 →2022
	overall	male	female	F Δ M		overall	male	female	F Δ M		overall	male	female	F Δ M
Chile	80.2	77.8	82.4	4.6	−1.3	78.9	76.5	81.4	4.9	0.6	79.5	77.2	81.9	4.7	−0.7
Uruguay	77.9	74.1	81.5	7.4	−2.5	75.4	71.7	79.3	7.6	2.6	78.0	74.1	81.7	7.6	0.1
Ecuador	77.0	74.3	79.8	5.5	−3.3	73.7	70.3	77.5	7.2	4.2	77.9	75.3	80.5	5.2	0.9
Argentina	76.7	73.2	80.0	6.8	−1.3	75.4	72.2	78.6	6.4	0.7	76.1	72.9	79.3	6.4	−0.6
Colombia	77.3	74.5	80.0	5.5	−4.5	72.8	69.4	76.4	7.0	0.9	73.7	70.3	77.1	6.8	−3.6
Peru	76.7	74.1	79.5	5.4	−4.3	72.4	70.1	74.7	4.6	1.0	73.4	71.3	75.5	4.2	−3.3
Brazil	75.9	72.2	79.6	7.4	−3.1	72.8	69.6	76.0	6.4	0.6	73.4	70.3	76.6	6.3	−2.5
World	72.8	70.6	75.0	4.4	−1.4	71.4	68.9	74.0	5.1	0.6	72.0	69.6	74.5	4.9	−0.8
Venezuela	72.1	68.3	76.0	7.7	−1.5	70.6	66.3	75.2	8.9	0.5	71.1	66.9	75.7	8.8	−1.0
Paraguay	74.3	72.3	76.4	4.1	−4.0	70.3	67.4	73.4	6.0	0.2	70.5	67.6	73.6	6.0	−3.8
Suriname	71.7	68.5	75.1	6.6	−1.4	70.3	67.2	73.6	6.4	0.0	70.3	67.2	73.6	6.4	−1.4
Guyana	69.9	66.9	73.1	6.2	−4.2	65.7	62.5	69.1	6.6	0.3	66.0	62.8	69.4	6.6	−3.9
Bolivia	71.5	68.7	74.5	5.8	−7.9	63.6	60.9	66.8	5.9	1.3	64.9	62.3	67.9	5.6	−6.6

WHO (2019)

Estimation of the World Health Organization for 2019. ^{[7] [8]}

Countries	Life expectancy at birth					HALE at birth					Life expectancy at age 60					HALE at age 60
	All	M	F	FΔM	Δ 2000	All	M	F	FΔM	Δ 2000	All	M	F	FΔM	Δ 2000	All	M	F	FΔM	Δ 2000
Chile	80.7	78.1	83.2	5.1	3.9	70.0	69.0	71.1	2.1	3.0	24.3	22.4	25.9	3.5	3.0	18.4	17.3	19.3	2.0	2.0
Peru	79.9	78.5	81.3	2.8	5.5	69.5	69.2	69.8	0.6	4.6	24.4	23.7	25.1	1.4	2.1	18.5	18.3	18.7	0.4	1.5
Colombia	79.3	76.7	81.9	5.2	5.6	69.0	67.4	70.5	3.1	4.9	24.0	22.5	25.3	2.8	2.3	18.1	17.1	18.9	1.8	1.8
Ecuador	78.4	76.4	80.5	4.1	3.9	68.5	67.7	69.3	1.6	3.3	23.2	22.0	24.3	2.3	1.3	17.6	17.0	18.2	1.2	0.8
Americas [9]	77.2	74.5	79.8	5.3	3.1	66.2	64.8	67.5	2.7	2.1	22.7	21.2	24.0	2.8	1.6	16.6	15.7	17.4	1.7	0.9
Uruguay	77.1	73.5	80.6	7.1	2.3	67.5	65.4	69.5	4.1	1.6	21.7	19.0	24.0	5.0	1.1	16.6	14.9	18.2	3.3	0.6
Argentina	76.6	73.5	79.5	6.0	2.5	67.1	65.4	68.8	3.4	2.0	21.1	18.8	23.1	4.3	0.9	16.3	14.8	17.6	2.8	0.7
Brazil	75.9	72.4	79.4	7.0	4.4	65.4	63.4	67.4	4.0	3.7	21.9	20.1	23.5	3.4	2.2	16.4	15.2	17.4	2.2	1.6
Paraguay	75.8	73.1	78.8	5.7	1.0	65.8	64.5	67.3	2.8	0.8	21.8	20.2	23.5	3.3	−0.2	16.5	15.4	17.6	2.2	−0.3
Venezuela	73.9	69.9	78.2	8.3	−0.2	64.4	61.9	67.1	5.2	−0.3	21.7	19.7	23.6	3.9	0.4	16.3	15.0	17.5	2.5	0.3
World	73.3	70.8	75.9	5.1	6.5	63.7	62.5	64.9	2.4	5.4	21.1	19.5	22.7	3.2	2.3	15.8	14.8	16.6	1.8	1.7
Bolivia	72.1	71.1	73.1	2.0	6.1	63.3	63.2	63.3	0.1	5.4	18.6	18.0	19.1	1.1	0.8	14.2	14.0	14.4	0.4	0.6
Suriname	71.5	68.5	74.6	6.1	1.6	62.4	60.7	64.2	3.5	1.1	18.5	16.4	20.5	4.1	−0.4	14.1	12.6	15.4	2.8	−0.4
Guyana	65.7	62.5	69.4	6.9	2.7	57.2	55.1	59.7	4.6	2.2	16.6	15.1	18.1	3.0	0.7	12.5	11.5	13.6	2.1	0.4

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  Life expectancy and HALE in countries of America in 2019 ^[7]
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  Elaboration by sex ^[7]

Interactive chart of male and female life expectancy in America as defined by WHO for 2019. Open the original chart and hover over chart elements. The squares of bubbles are proportional to population according to estimation of the UN for 2019.

Charts

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  Comparison of life expectancy in some countries of South America ^[1]

See also

• List of countries by life expectancy
• List of countries in the Americas by life expectancy
• List of South American countries by population
• List of Argentine provinces and territories by life expectancy
• List of Brazilian states by life expectancy
• Oldest people
• Longevity
• Life extension

References

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3. "Life expectancy at birth, female". The World Bank Group. 29 June 2023. Retrieved 6 July 2023.
4. "Human Development Report 2020 (tables 1 and 4)" (PDF). UN Development Programme. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 December 2020. Retrieved 28 February 2021.
5. "Human Development Report 2021/2022 (tables 1 and 4)" (PDF). UN Development Programme . Retrieved 28 June 2023.
6. "Human Development Report 2023/2024 (tables 1 and 4)" (PDF). UN Development Programme. 13 March 2024. Retrieved 4 April 2024.
7. "Life expectancy and Healthy life expectancy, data by country". World Health Organization. 4 December 2022.
8. "Life expectancy and Healthy life expectancy, data by WHO region". World Health Organization. 7 December 2022.
9. "WHO: PAHO: Countries and Centers". World Health Organization. Retrieved 7 May 2022.