Dominican Republic vs Paraguay: Life expectancy

Dominican Republic

73.72 years

in 2023

Paraguay

73.84 years

in 2023

Dominican Republic rank

132nd

Paraguay rank

131st

Life expectancy over time

Dominican Republic
Paraguay

How they compare

Paraguay currently reports 73.84 years against 73.72 years in Dominican Republic, a difference of 0.1242 years.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 76 shared years of data; in 1930 it was Paraguay ahead.

Globally, Dominican Republic ranks 132nd and Paraguay ranks 131st 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.