Belize vs Dominican Republic: Life expectancy

Belize

73.57 years

in 2023

Dominican Republic

73.72 years

in 2023

Belize rank

135th

Dominican Republic rank

132nd

Life expectancy over time

Belize
Dominican Republic

How they compare

Dominican Republic currently reports 73.72 years against 73.57 years in Belize, a difference of 0.1545 years.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Belize ahead.

Globally, Belize ranks 135th and Dominican Republic ranks 132nd of 236 countries.

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About this data

Indicator: Life expectancy
Unit: years
Source: Riley (2005); Zijdeman et al. (2015); HMD (2025); UN WPP (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 236 places, 19,452 data points, 1543–2023
Last refreshed: 06 August 2026

Period life expectancy is the number of years the average person born in a certain year would live if they experienced the same chances of dying at each age as people did that year.