This is a list of South American countries by
life expectancy at birth
Life is a quality that distinguishes matter that has biological processes, such as signaling and self-sustaining processes, from that which does not, and is defined by the capacity for growth, reaction to stimuli, metabolism, energy t ...
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World Bank Group (2021)
Estimation of the
World Bank Group
The World Bank Group (WBG) is a family of five international organizations that make leveraged loans to developing countries. It is the largest and best-known development bank in the world and an observer at the United Nations Development Gr ...
for 2021.
The data is filtered according to the
list of countries in South America. The values in the World Bank Group tables are rounded. All calculations are based on raw data, so due to the nuances of rounding, in some places illusory inconsistencies of indicators arose, with a size of 0.01 year.
United Nations (2022)
Estimation of the
analytical agency of the UN.
By default, the list is sorted by 2022.
WHO (2019)
Estimation of the
World Health Organization
The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health. The WHO Constitution states its main objective as "the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of ...
for 2019.
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File:Healthy life expectancy bar chart -America.png, Life expectancy and HALE in countries of America in 2019
File:Healthy life expectancy bar chart -America -sex.png, Elaboration by sex
Charts
File:Life expectancy in countries of South America.png, Comparison of life expectancy in some countries of South America
See also
References
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Life expectancy
Life expectancy is a statistical measure of the average time an organism is expected to live, based on the year of its birth, current age, and other demographic factors like sex. The most commonly used measure is life expectancy at birth ...
South America
South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere at the northern tip of the continent. It can also be described as the sout ...