USAID 1998

Latin America and the Caribbean Selected Economic and Social Data

Life Expectancy at Birth

Years

	1970	1975	1980	1985	1990	1995	1996	1997	2000	2010
Anguilla	..	..	..	72	75	76	77	77	78	80
Antigua & Barbuda	..	..	..	70	69	70	71	71	72	74
Aruba	..	..	..	75	76	77	77	77	77	78
Bahamas	..	..	67	69	72	73	74	74	75	77
Barbados	..	..	72	72	72	74	74	75	75	77
Belize	..	..	65	66	67	68	69	69	69	71
Cuba	..	..	..	75	75	75	75	76	76	77
Dominica	..	..	..	75	76	77	77	78	78	80
Dominican Republic	..	..	63	65	67	69	69	69	70	73
French Guiana	..	..	..	72	74	76	76	76	77	79
Grenada	..	..	..	68	69	71	71	71	72	74
Guadeloupe	..	69	..	73	75	77	77	78	78	80
Guyana	..	..	62	63	64	64	63	63	61	51
Haiti	48	..	..	51	50	51	51	51	52	54
Jamaica	67	..	..	72	73	75	75	75	76	78
Martinique	..	..	..	76	77	79	79	79	79	81
Netherlands Antilles	..	..	..	75	74	73	74	74	74	76
St. Kitts & Nevis	..	..	64	66	65	67	67	67	68	72
St. Lucia	..	..	69	70	70	71	71	71	72	74
St. Vincent & the Grenadines	..	..	68	71	71	73	73	73	74	77
Suriname	..	..	65	67	68	70	70	70	71	74
Trinidad & Tobago	..	..	67	69	70	70	70	70	71	72
Turks & Caicos Islands	..	..	..	..	71	72	72	72	73	74
British Virgin Islands	..	..	..	..	72	75	74	75	75	77
Caribbean	..	..	..	64	64	65	65	65	66	67
Costa Rica	..	..	..	75	76	76	76	76	76	77
El Salvador	55	57	56	63	66	69	69	69	70	74
Guatemala	52	56	57	61	63	65	65	66	67	70
Honduras	..	..	..	..	65	66	66	65	64	60
Nicaragua	..	54	56	59	63	65	66	66	68	72
Panama	..	68	71	72	73	74	74	74	75	77
Central America	..	..	..	63	65	66	66	66	67	69
Argentina	..	..	70	72	72	74	74	74	75	77
Bolivia	47	48	51	54	56	59	60	60	62	67
Brazil	58	60	63	65	67	65	65	65	64	68
Chile	..	..	..	71	72	74	75	75	76	78
Colombia	..	60	64	68	68	69	69	70	71	74
Ecuador	..	..	..	..	69	71	71	71	73	76
Paraguay	..	67	68	69	70	72	72	72	73	75
Peru	..	56	57	62	66	69	69	70	71	74
Uruguay	..	..	..	72	73	75	75	75	76	79
Venezuela	..	66	68	..	71	72	72	72	73	76
South America	..	..	..	59	66	66	66	65	66	69
Mexico	61	..	67	68	68	71	71	71	72	75
LAC	..	..	..	64	66	67	67	67	67	70

Sources Center for International Health Information (CIHI). Country estimates compiled from the U.S. Bureau of the Census, International Data Base, 1997.

Definition Life expectancy at birth is the average number of years a person can expect to live at current levels of mortality.

Notes Regional averages are weighted by the estimated number of live births. Data are missing for many countries prior to 1985, unlike the life expectancy at birth table that appeared in the 1997 LAC Databook. This arises from a change in sources as CIHI is in the process of shifting from UN to superior Bureau of the Census estimates and projections. At present, the Bureau of the Census time-series data are not complete. As a result data are missing for many countries prior t o 1985.

U.S. Agency for International Development
Washington D.C., 1998
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