Guatemala vs Venezuela: Life expectancy

Guatemala

72.6 years

in 2023

Venezuela

72.51 years

in 2023

Guatemala rank

145th

Venezuela rank

146th

Life expectancy over time

Guatemala
Venezuela

How they compare

Guatemala currently reports 72.6 years against 72.51 years in Venezuela, a difference of 0.0881 years.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 79 shared years of data; in 1900 it was Venezuela ahead.

Globally, Guatemala ranks 145th and Venezuela ranks 146th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Guatemala
Life expectancy in Venezuela
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.