Which country has the lowest life expectancy in Latin America?

Life expectancy has increased worldwide over the last five decades thanks to medical advances and a better quality of life In most countries.

In Latin America, in 1950, a person could live, on average, to 48.6 years.

By 2023, according to estimates from the Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC), it could live a little longer than 75 years old.

But this is a regional average. Below it are several countries where healthy life expectancy is much lower. Here is the list of these countries and which one is at the top.

Which country has the lowest life expectancy in Latin America?

CEPAL underlines in its reports that Covid-19 pandemic The average life expectancy in Latin America decreased by three years, from 75 to 72 years between 2019 and 2021. By 2023, the agency estimates a recovery of this index and brings it back to pre-pandemic values.

THE poverty, of course, is a determining factor when limiting access to good quality healthcare. For this reason, low-income countries top the list of places in the region where people live fewer years.

This list prepared by CEPAL is guided by Haiti, one of the poorest and most conflict-ridden countries in the region. There, life expectancy reaches 63.2 years, twelve less than the Latin American average.

THE Haitian humanitarian crisis The data is alarming: out of a population of almost 11,500,000 inhabitants, almost half need urgent aid. And of the over 5 million people in dramatic need, almost 3 million are girls, boys and adolescents.

Followed, in order of life expectancy, are Bolivia (63.6), Guyana (65.7), Guatemala (69.2), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (69.6), Honduras (70.1), Mexico (70 ,2), Paraguay and Suriname. (70.3), Belize and Jamaica (70.5), Venezuela (70.6), El Salvador (70.7), Saint Lucia (71.1), Bahamas (71.6), Saint Kitts and Nevis ( 71.7), Peru (72.4), Dominican Republic (72.6), Brazil, Colombia and Dominica (72.8), Trinidad and Tobago (73), Cuba and Ecuador (73.7), Nicaragua (73 .8), Aruba (74.6) and Granada (74.9). In this way, most Latin American and Caribbean countries rank below the regional average.

However, they surpass several African nations that have the lowest life expectancy in the world. Leading this sad ranking is Lesotho (50.7) followed by the Central African Republic (53), Somalia (56), Swaziland (formerly Swaziland) (57) and Mozambique (58), according to data from the World Health Organization ( WHO). . .

At the other extreme, according to this article on the Bloomberglinea portal, Latin American countries with longer life expectancy I am kilos (78.9), Antigua and Barbuda (78.5), Barbados (77.6), Costa Rica (77), Panama (76.2), Uruguay and Argentina (75.4).

All over the worldAccording to the UN, Munich (87)Japan (84.95), Liechtenstein (84.87), Switzerland (84.38), Singapore (84.27), Italy (84.2), Vatican City and South Korea (84.1) and Spain ( 84) are the countries with the highest life expectancy.