Colombia vs Peru: Life expectancy

Colombia

77.72 years

in 2023

Peru

77.74 years

in 2023

Colombia rank

81st

Peru rank

80th

Life expectancy over time

Colombia
Peru

How they compare

Peru currently reports 77.74 years against 77.72 years in Colombia, a difference of 0.0155 years.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 75 shared years of data; in 1940 it was Colombia ahead.

Globally, Colombia ranks 81st and Peru ranks 80th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Colombia
Life expectancy in Peru
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.