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Puerto Rico (US) — Life expectancy
Life Expectancy at Birth for Puerto Rico (US), 1960–2024.
Latest value · 2024
81.9
Life Expectancy at Birth · years · +19.3% since 1960
Life expectancy for Puerto Rico (US) was 81.9 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 68.2 in 1964 (about 1.2× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to 0.28% per year.
Puerto Rico (US) ranks 38 of 217 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 18%. The median for Latin America & Caribbean is 76.0, so Puerto Rico (US) sits above it. Over the last decade (2014–2024) the figure moved up 2%.
Key figures
Latest (2024)
81.9
First (1960)
68.6
Change
+19.3%
Highest
81.9
in 2024
Lowest
68.2
in 1964
Average
74.7
Annual growth (CAGR)
0.28%
Years of data
65
Recent years
| Year | years |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 81.9 |
| 2023 | 81.69 |
| 2022 | 79.43 |
| 2021 | 79.77 |
| 2020 | 80.01 |
| 2019 | 81.44 |
| 2018 | 81.09 |
| 2017 | 79.07 |
| 2016 | 80.36 |
| 2015 | 80.68 |
| 2014 | 80.04 |
| 2013 | 80.32 |
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.