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Mexico — Life expectancy

Life Expectancy at Birth for Mexico, 1960–2024.

Latest value · 2024
75.3
Life Expectancy at Birth · years · +40.5% since 1960

Life expectancy for Mexico was 75.3 in 2024, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 65 years, from 1960 to 2024. The latest year is also the highest value on record for this series. The lowest was 53.6 in 1960 (about 1.4× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to 0.53% per year.

Mexico ranks 105 of 217 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 48%. The median for Latin America & Caribbean is 76.0, so Mexico sits below it. Over the last decade (2014–2024) the figure moved up 1%.

Key figures

Latest (2024)
75.3
First (1960)
53.6
Change
+40.5%
Highest
75.3
in 2024
Lowest
53.6
in 1960
Average
67.5
Annual growth (CAGR)
0.53%
Years of data
65

Recent years

Yearyears
202475.26
202375.07
202273.97
202169.75
202070.45
201974.53
201874.3
201774.26
201674.38
201574.43
201474.4
201374.29
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.