This is a list of South American countries by life expectancy at birth.

World Bank Group (2022)

Estimation of the World Bank Group for 2022.^[1][2][3] 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.

Countries and territories	2022				Historical data									recovery from COVID-19: 2019→2022
	All	Male	Female	Sex gap	2014	2014 →2019	2019	2019 →2020	2020	2020 →2021	2021	2021 →2022	2022
Chile	79.52	77.16	81.88	4.72	79.47	0.85	80.33	−0.95	79.38	−0.43	78.94	0.58	79.52	−0.81
Uruguay	78.00	74.15	81.69	7.54	77.37	0.14	77.51	0.92	78.43	−2.99	75.44	2.56	78.00	0.49
Ecuador	77.89	75.31	80.48	5.17	76.62	0.67	77.30	−5.14	72.15	1.52	73.67	4.22	77.89	0.60
Argentina	76.06	72.85	79.28	6.43	76.75	0.53	77.28	−1.39	75.89	−0.50	75.39	0.67	76.06	−1.22
Colombia	73.66	70.32	77.14	6.82	76.04	0.71	76.75	−1.98	74.77	−1.94	72.83	0.83	73.66	−3.09
Brazil	73.42	70.30	76.60	6.30	74.31	1.03	75.34	−1.33	74.01	−1.26	72.75	0.67	73.42	−1.91
Peru	73.39	71.33	75.50	4.16	75.33	0.82	76.16	−2.49	73.67	−1.29	72.38	1.01	73.39	−2.77
World	72.00	69.60	74.53	4.93	71.88	1.10	72.98	−0.74	72.24	−0.92	71.33	0.67	72.00	−0.98
Venezuela	71.11	66.88	75.66	8.78	72.85	−0.69	72.16	−1.07	71.09	−0.54	70.55	0.55	71.11	−1.06
Paraguay	70.47	67.64	73.57	5.93	72.88	0.74	73.62	−0.44	73.18	−2.92	70.26	0.21	70.47	−3.15
Suriname	70.29	67.19	73.58	6.39	69.78	2.46	72.24	0.32	72.56	−2.29	70.27	0.02	70.29	−1.95
Guyana	65.99	62.78	69.40	6.62	67.88	1.24	69.12	−0.64	68.49	−2.81	65.67	0.32	65.99	−3.13
Bolivia	64.93	62.27	67.91	5.64	67.16	0.68	67.84	−3.37	64.47	−0.84	63.63	1.30	64.93	−2.91

Change in life expectancy in South America from 2019 to 2021^[1]

United Nations (2022)

Estimation of the analytical agency of the UN.^[4][5][6] By default, the list is sorted by 2022.

Countries & territories	2019				2019 →2021	2021				2021 →2022	2022				2019 →2022
	overall	male	female	F Δ M		overall	male	female	F Δ M		overall	male	female	F Δ M
Chile	80.2	77.8	82.4	4.6	−1.3	78.9	76.5	81.4	4.9	0.6	79.5	77.2	81.9	4.7	−0.7
Uruguay	77.9	74.1	81.5	7.4	−2.5	75.4	71.7	79.3	7.6	2.6	78.0	74.1	81.7	7.6	0.1
Ecuador	77.0	74.3	79.8	5.5	−3.3	73.7	70.3	77.5	7.2	4.2	77.9	75.3	80.5	5.2	0.9
Argentina	76.7	73.2	80.0	6.8	−1.3	75.4	72.2	78.6	6.4	0.7	76.1	72.9	79.3	6.4	−0.6
Colombia	77.3	74.5	80.0	5.5	−4.5	72.8	69.4	76.4	7.0	0.9	73.7	70.3	77.1	6.8	−3.6
Peru	76.7	74.1	79.5	5.4	−4.3	72.4	70.1	74.7	4.6	1.0	73.4	71.3	75.5	4.2	−3.3
Brazil	75.9	72.2	79.6	7.4	−3.1	72.8	69.6	76.0	6.4	0.6	73.4	70.3	76.6	6.3	−2.5
World	72.8	70.6	75.0	4.4	−1.4	71.4	68.9	74.0	5.1	0.6	72.0	69.6	74.5	4.9	−0.8
Venezuela	72.1	68.3	76.0	7.7	−1.5	70.6	66.3	75.2	8.9	0.5	71.1	66.9	75.7	8.8	−1.0
Paraguay	74.3	72.3	76.4	4.1	−4.0	70.3	67.4	73.4	6.0	0.2	70.5	67.6	73.6	6.0	−3.8
Suriname	71.7	68.5	75.1	6.6	−1.4	70.3	67.2	73.6	6.4	0.0	70.3	67.2	73.6	6.4	−1.4
Guyana	69.9	66.9	73.1	6.2	−4.2	65.7	62.5	69.1	6.6	0.3	66.0	62.8	69.4	6.6	−3.9
Bolivia	71.5	68.7	74.5	5.8	−7.9	63.6	60.9	66.8	5.9	1.3	64.9	62.3	67.9	5.6	−6.6

WHO (2019)

Estimation of the World Health Organization for 2019.^[7][8]

Countries	Life expectancy at birth					HALE at birth					Life expectancy at age 60					HALE at age 60
	All	M	F	FΔM	Δ 2000	All	M	F	FΔM	Δ 2000	All	M	F	FΔM	Δ 2000	All	M	F	FΔM	Δ 2000
Chile	80.7	78.1	83.2	5.1	3.9	70.0	69.0	71.1	2.1	3.0	24.3	22.4	25.9	3.5	3.0	18.4	17.3	19.3	2.0	2.0
Peru	79.9	78.5	81.3	2.8	5.5	69.5	69.2	69.8	0.6	4.6	24.4	23.7	25.1	1.4	2.1	18.5	18.3	18.7	0.4	1.5
Colombia	79.3	76.7	81.9	5.2	5.6	69.0	67.4	70.5	3.1	4.9	24.0	22.5	25.3	2.8	2.3	18.1	17.1	18.9	1.8	1.8
Ecuador	78.4	76.4	80.5	4.1	3.9	68.5	67.7	69.3	1.6	3.3	23.2	22.0	24.3	2.3	1.3	17.6	17.0	18.2	1.2	0.8
Americas[9]	77.2	74.5	79.8	5.3	3.1	66.2	64.8	67.5	2.7	2.1	22.7	21.2	24.0	2.8	1.6	16.6	15.7	17.4	1.7	0.9
Uruguay	77.1	73.5	80.6	7.1	2.3	67.5	65.4	69.5	4.1	1.6	21.7	19.0	24.0	5.0	1.1	16.6	14.9	18.2	3.3	0.6
Argentina	76.6	73.5	79.5	6.0	2.5	67.1	65.4	68.8	3.4	2.0	21.1	18.8	23.1	4.3	0.9	16.3	14.8	17.6	2.8	0.7
Brazil	75.9	72.4	79.4	7.0	4.4	65.4	63.4	67.4	4.0	3.7	21.9	20.1	23.5	3.4	2.2	16.4	15.2	17.4	2.2	1.6
Paraguay	75.8	73.1	78.8	5.7	1.0	65.8	64.5	67.3	2.8	0.8	21.8	20.2	23.5	3.3	−0.2	16.5	15.4	17.6	2.2	−0.3
Venezuela	73.9	69.9	78.2	8.3	−0.2	64.4	61.9	67.1	5.2	−0.3	21.7	19.7	23.6	3.9	0.4	16.3	15.0	17.5	2.5	0.3
World	73.3	70.8	75.9	5.1	6.5	63.7	62.5	64.9	2.4	5.4	21.1	19.5	22.7	3.2	2.3	15.8	14.8	16.6	1.8	1.7
Bolivia	72.1	71.1	73.1	2.0	6.1	63.3	63.2	63.3	0.1	5.4	18.6	18.0	19.1	1.1	0.8	14.2	14.0	14.4	0.4	0.6
Suriname	71.5	68.5	74.6	6.1	1.6	62.4	60.7	64.2	3.5	1.1	18.5	16.4	20.5	4.1	−0.4	14.1	12.6	15.4	2.8	−0.4
Guyana	65.7	62.5	69.4	6.9	2.7	57.2	55.1	59.7	4.6	2.2	16.6	15.1	18.1	3.0	0.7	12.5	11.5	13.6	2.1	0.4

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  Life expectancy and HALE in countries of America in 2019^[7]
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  Elaboration by sex^[7]

Charts

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  Comparison of life expectancy in some countries of South America^[1]