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Dominican Republic — Life expectancy
Life Expectancy at Birth for Dominican Republic, 1960–2024.
Latest value · 2024
73.9
Life Expectancy at Birth · years · +42.9% since 1960
Life expectancy for Dominican Republic was 73.9 in 2024, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 65 years, from 1960 to 2024. The highest recorded value was 74.2 in 2022. The lowest was 51.7 in 1960 (about 1.4× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to 0.56% per year.
Dominican Republic ranks 116 of 217 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 53%. The median for Latin America & Caribbean is 76.0, so Dominican Republic sits below it. It peaked in 2022 and has fallen 0% since. Over the last decade (2014–2024) the figure moved up 1%.
Key figures
Latest (2024)
73.9
First (1960)
51.7
Change
+42.9%
Highest
74.2
in 2022
Lowest
51.7
in 1960
Average
66.2
Annual growth (CAGR)
0.56%
Years of data
65
Recent years
| Year | years |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 73.87 |
| 2023 | 73.72 |
| 2022 | 74.21 |
| 2021 | 71.76 |
| 2020 | 72.64 |
| 2019 | 73.11 |
| 2018 | 73.56 |
| 2017 | 73.37 |
| 2016 | 72.89 |
| 2015 | 72.98 |
| 2014 | 73.15 |
| 2013 | 73.04 |
Reading this correctly. Number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of birth stayed the same throughout its life. Figures are in years. Comparing this series with a different measure of the same concept (for example a nominal figure against a purchasing-power-parity figure) will give misleading results.
Related data
Source. World Bank Open Data, indicator
SP.DYN.LE00.IN — Life Expectancy at Birth. Data licensed under CC BY 4.0. Values are reproduced as published; this page computes the summary statistics (change, CAGR, extremes) from the underlying annual series. View the original dataset on data.worldbank.org.