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Costa Rica - Life Expectancy 2016

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Life expectancy at birth, total · World Bank

80.0 −0.4 from 2015 Global rank: 47th

Costa Rica's life expectancy was 80.0 in 2016, decreased +0.4 from 80.4 in 2015. This was the 47th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2016▾

Life Expectancy by Country - 2016
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Monaco	85.6	0.4%
2nd	San Marino	84.8	0.2%
3rd	Andorra	84.5	-0.1%
4th	Hong Kong SAR, China	84.2	0.0%
5th	Japan	84.0	0.2%
6th	Switzerland	83.6	0.9%
7th	Spain	83.3	0.6%
8th	Macao SAR, China	83.3	0.1%
9th	Italy	83.2	0.8%
10th	Singapore	82.8	0.1%
11th	Gibraltar	82.7	0.1%
12th	Luxembourg	82.7	0.5%
13th	France	82.6	0.3%
14th	French Polynesia	82.6	0.3%
15th	Malta	82.5	0.7%
16th	Australia	82.4	0.1%
17th	Israel	82.4	0.4%
18th	Norway	82.4	0.1%
19th	Sweden	82.3	0.1%
20th	Korea	82.3	0.3%
21st	Liechtenstein	82.3	-0.5%
22nd	Iceland	82.2	-0.3%
23rd	United Arab Emirates	82.2	0.1%
24th	Qatar	82.1	0.4%
25th	Faroe Islands	82.0	0.2%
26th	Canada	81.9	0.1%
27th	New Zealand	81.7	0.1%
28th	Ireland	81.7	0.2%
29th	Austria	81.6	0.6%
30th	Netherlands	81.6	0.1%
31st	Cyprus	81.5	0.1%
32nd	Belgium	81.4	0.6%
33rd	Finland	81.4	-0.1%
34th	Greece	81.4	0.4%
35th	Channel Islands	81.2	-0.2%
36th	Slovenia	81.2	0.5%
37th	United Kingdom	81.2	0.2%
38th	Portugal	81.1	0.0%
39th	Germany	81.0	0.4%
40th	European Union	81.0	0.5%
41st	Denmark	80.9	0.2%
42nd	Bermuda	80.5	0.2%
43rd	Bahrain	80.4	0.1%
44th	Isle of Man	80.4	0.2%
45th	Puerto Rico (US)	80.4	-0.4%
46th	Chile	80.3	0.4%
47th	Costa Rica	80.0	-0.5%
48th	St. Martin (French part)	79.9	0.1%
49th	Kuwait	79.7	0.4%
50th	Oman	79.6	0.3%
51st	Virgin Islands (US)	79.2	0.2%
52nd	Czechia	79.0	0.6%
53rd	Maldives	78.9	0.4%
54th	Albania	78.6	0.4%
55th	United States	78.5	-0.2%
56th	Cayman Islands	78.4	0.3%
57th	Saudi Arabia	78.4	0.7%
58th	Lebanon	78.3	0.0%
59th	Croatia	77.9	0.8%
60th	Poland	77.9	0.5%
61st	Panama	77.8	0.2%
62nd	Estonia	77.6	0.1%
63rd	Cuba	77.6	-0.2%
64th	Turks and Caicos Islands	77.4	0.2%
65th	Northern Mariana Islands	77.4	0.0%
66th	New Caledonia	77.4	0.2%
67th	Uruguay	77.4	0.1%
68th	China	77.2	0.3%
69th	Slovak Republic	77.2	0.8%
70th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	77.1	0.1%
71st	Antigua and Barbuda	77.0	0.1%
72nd	Thailand	76.8	0.3%
73rd	Kosovo	76.7	1.0%
74th	British Virgin Islands	76.6	0.1%
75th	Türkiye	76.6	0.1%
76th	Montenegro	76.5	-0.1%
77th	Guam	76.4	0.0%
78th	Curaçao	76.3	-0.2%
79th	Colombia	76.2	0.2%
80th	Barbados	76.2	0.1%
81st	Iran, Islamic Republic of	76.2	0.3%
82nd	Sri Lanka	76.1	0.2%
83rd	Argentina	76.1	-0.6%
84th	Ecuador	76.1	-0.2%
85th	Hungary	76.1	0.7%
86th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	76.0	0.1%
87th	Peru	76.0	0.3%
88th	Serbia	75.7	0.5%
89th	Jordan	75.6	0.7%
90th	Aruba	75.5	0.2%
91st	North Macedonia	75.4	0.0%
92nd	Malaysia	75.4	0.1%
93rd	Algeria	75.3	0.2%
94th	Romania	75.2	0.4%
95th	Brazil	75.1	0.0%
96th	Grenada	75.0	0.0%
97th	Tunisia	75.0	0.2%
98th	West Bank and Gaza	74.9	0.5%
99th	Brunei Darussalam	74.9	0.0%
100th	Armenia	74.9	0.0%
101st	Bulgaria	74.8	0.3%
102nd	Lithuania	74.7	0.5%
103rd	Latvia	74.6	0.1%
104th	Mauritius	74.4	0.1%
105th	Mexico	74.4	-0.1%
106th	Cabo Verde	74.4	0.3%
107th	Seychelles	74.3	0.0%
108th	Bahamas, The	74.0	0.3%
109th	Viet Nam	74.0	0.0%
110th	Belarus	73.8	0.3%
111th	Paraguay	73.5	0.0%
112th	Ukraine	73.4	1.0%
113th	Morocco	73.2	0.5%
114th	Nicaragua	73.2	0.4%
115th	Georgia	73.1	-0.1%
116th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	73.0	0.2%
117th	Trinidad and Tobago	72.9	0.1%
118th	Dominican Republic	72.9	-0.1%
119th	American Samoa	72.6	0.0%
120th	Azerbaijan	72.6	0.3%
121st	St. Lucia	72.6	-0.5%
122nd	Kazakhstan	72.5	0.7%
123rd	Jamaica	72.1	-0.2%
124th	Tonga	72.0	0.1%
125th	Belize	71.8	0.3%
126th	Greenland	71.8	0.5%
127th	Libya	71.8	0.2%
128th	Russian Federation	71.7	0.7%
129th	Honduras	71.6	0.4%
130th	Uzbekistan	71.6	0.4%
131st	St. Kitts and Nevis	71.2	0.0%
132nd	Guatemala	71.2	0.4%
133rd	Dominica	71.2	1.7%
134th	Bhutan	71.1	0.5%
135th	Bangladesh	71.1	0.8%
136th	Samoa	71.0	-0.1%
137th	Suriname	71.0	0.6%
138th	Kyrgyz Republic	71.0	0.4%
139th	El Salvador	70.9	-0.1%
140th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	70.7	0.3%
141st	Egypt, Arab Republic of	70.4	0.4%
142nd	Vanuatu	70.4	0.3%
143rd	Mongolia	70.2	-0.8%
144th	Moldova	70.2	0.1%
145th	Tajikistan	70.0	0.5%
146th	Indonesia	69.7	0.3%
147th	India	69.7	0.6%
148th	Cambodia	69.6	0.3%
149th	Solomon Islands	69.5	0.3%
150th	Philippines	69.5	0.1%
151st	Turkmenistan	69.1	0.1%
152nd	Palau	69.0	0.0%
153rd	Iraq	68.7	-1.8%
154th	Nepal	68.4	1.6%
155th	Guyana	68.1	0.5%
156th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	67.4	0.3%
157th	Yemen, Republic of	67.1	0.5%
158th	Lao PDR	67.0	0.5%
159th	Mauritania	66.8	0.5%
160th	Senegal	66.7	0.4%
161st	Fiji	66.7	0.3%
162nd	Gabon	66.6	0.4%
163rd	São Tomé and Principe	66.6	0.8%
164th	Eritrea	66.2	0.5%
165th	Pakistan	65.9	0.5%
166th	Kiribati	65.8	0.0%
167th	Rwanda	65.7	0.5%
168th	Myanmar	65.6	0.5%
169th	Timor-Leste	65.6	0.4%
170th	Micronesia, Federated States of	65.6	0.4%
171st	Tuvalu	65.5	0.2%
172nd	Marshall Islands	65.5	0.3%
173rd	Syrian Arab Republic	65.2	3.0%
174th	Comoros	64.8	0.5%
175th	South Africa	64.7	1.1%
176th	Papua New Guinea	64.7	0.4%
177th	Sudan	64.7	0.5%
178th	Uganda	64.5	1.0%
179th	Tanzania	64.4	0.7%
180th	Botswana	64.3	1.7%
181st	Congo, Republic of	63.9	0.4%
182nd	Ghana	63.5	0.5%
183rd	Madagascar	63.4	0.1%
184th	Gambia, The	63.4	0.7%
185th	Djibouti	63.3	0.8%
186th	Haiti	63.3	0.2%
187th	Malawi	63.2	1.3%
188th	Afghanistan	62.6	0.6%
189th	Kenya	62.5	0.4%
190th	Angola	61.6	0.9%
191st	Zambia	61.1	0.7%
192nd	Equatorial Guinea	61.1	0.7%
193rd	Nauru	61.0	0.2%
194th	Namibia	60.8	1.3%
195th	Burundi	60.8	1.1%
196th	Guinea-Bissau	60.6	0.9%
197th	Liberia	60.5	2.1%
198th	Cameroon	60.3	1.0%
199th	Zimbabwe	59.8	1.3%
200th	Togo	59.7	0.8%
201st	Mozambique	59.5	1.3%
202nd	Benin	59.3	0.3%
203rd	Niger	59.2	0.6%
204th	Burkina Faso	59.2	0.7%
205th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	59.1	0.7%
206th	Côte d'Ivoire	58.8	0.9%
207th	Guinea	58.5	1.0%
208th	Mali	58.3	0.8%
209th	Sierra Leone	56.9	2.7%
210th	Eswatini	56.2	2.3%
211th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	55.3	0.4%
212th	Lesotho	52.9	2.1%
213th	Nigeria	52.2	0.5%
214th	Chad	51.6	0.6%
215th	Central African Republic	51.0	-1.8%
216th	South Sudan	36.7	-7.6%

FAQ

What was Costa Rica's life expectancy in 2016?▾

Costa Rica's life expectancy in 2016 was 80.0. This ranked 47th globally.

How did Costa Rica's life expectancy change in 2016?▾

Costa Rica's life expectancy decreased by 0.5% in 2016 compared to 2015.

Which country had the highest life expectancy in 2016?▾

Monaco had the highest life expectancy in 2016 at 85.6.

What is the life expectancy of Costa Rica in 2016?▾

The life expectancy of Costa Rica in 2016 was 80.0. This ranked 47th globally.

How does 2016 compare to 2015 for Costa Rica's life expectancy?▾

Costa Rica's life expectancy went from 80.4 in 2015 to 80.0 in 2016, a 0.5% decrease.

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