Costa Rica vs Taiwan: Life expectancy

Costa Rica

80.8 years

in 2023

Taiwan

80.56 years

in 2023

Costa Rica rank

51st

Taiwan rank

52nd

Life expectancy over time

Costa Rica
Taiwan

How they compare

Costa Rica currently reports 80.8 years against 80.56 years in Taiwan, a difference of 0.2407 years.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Costa Rica ahead.

Globally, Costa Rica ranks 51st and Taiwan ranks 52nd of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Costa Rica
Life expectancy in Taiwan
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.