Chile vs Costa Rica: Life expectancy

Chile

81.17 years

in 2023

Costa Rica

80.8 years

in 2023

Chile rank

48th

Costa Rica rank

51st

Life expectancy over time

Chile
Costa Rica

How they compare

Chile currently reports 81.17 years against 80.8 years in Costa Rica, a difference of 0.3672 years.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 79 shared years of data; in 1900 it was Costa Rica ahead.

Globally, Chile ranks 48th and Costa Rica ranks 51st of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Chile
Life expectancy in Costa Rica
Full country ranking

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.