Cayman Islands vs Costa Rica: Life expectancy

Cayman Islands
80.36 years
in 2023
Costa Rica
80.8 years
in 2023
Cayman Islands rank
54th
Costa Rica rank
51st

Life expectancy over time

  • Cayman Islands
  • Costa Rica
020406080187519492023

How they compare

Costa Rica currently reports 80.8 years against 80.36 years in Cayman Islands, a difference of 0.4419 years.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Costa Rica ahead.

Globally, Cayman Islands ranks 54th and Costa Rica ranks 51st 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
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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.