Dominican Republic vs Suriname: Life expectancy

Dominican Republic

73.72 years

in 2023

Suriname

73.63 years

in 2023

Dominican Republic rank

132nd

Suriname rank

134th

Life expectancy over time

Dominican Republic
Suriname

How they compare

Dominican Republic currently reports 73.72 years against 73.63 years in Suriname, a difference of 0.0891 years.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Suriname ahead.

Globally, Dominican Republic ranks 132nd and Suriname ranks 134th 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.