Costa Rica · Healthy Life Expectancy at Birth (HALE)
67.6 years2021
Unit: years. Publisher measure: Healthy life expectancy (HALE) at birth (years).
Healthy life expectancy at birth for the country population, both sexes: equivalent years in full health under reference-year mortality and morbidity.
Measurement basis: WHO modelled healthy life expectancy estimates using the Sullivan method with morbidity adjustment.
Reference-period cadence: annual.
Source update cadence: biennial. This does not establish a publication date for an individual reading.
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World Health Organization (Global Health Observatory); retrieved 2026-09-07. Retrieval time is separate from an official publisher release vintage.
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Reported estimates and uncertainty · 22 rows
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| Country | Year | Reading | Lower endpoint | Upper endpoint | Publisher note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Costa Rica | 2000 | 67.8318355 | 67.23213542 | 68.63668997 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2001 | 67.74771766 | 67.09940887 | 68.37556512 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2002 | 68.27838095 | 67.63170361 | 68.94472532 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2003 | 68.1605988 | 67.37932319 | 68.85789038 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2004 | 68.13052767 | 67.45486766 | 68.94321042 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2005 | 68.87792934 | 68.11638675 | 69.86891462 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2006 | 68.5746123 | 67.87699759 | 69.45031216 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2007 | 69.22516466 | 68.457309 | 70.13499195 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2008 | 69.24767851 | 68.60767064 | 70.03577041 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2009 | 69.47755177 | 68.73005156 | 70.20145429 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2010 | 68.63827845 | 68.01302831 | 69.37666804 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2011 | 69.18762856 | 68.40445671 | 70.04194841 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2012 | 69.2949856 | 68.49512418 | 69.95270188 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2013 | 69.40710297 | 68.64250148 | 70.30304885 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2014 | 69.32897323 | 68.6142613 | 70.04444532 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2015 | 69.38444245 | 68.71954362 | 70.17387704 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2016 | 69.0385745 | 68.31055017 | 69.98364627 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2017 | 69.11886044 | 68.37448738 | 69.87688172 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2018 | 69.18391639 | 68.41427616 | 70.05451903 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2019 | 69.21303269 | 68.45102243 | 69.97415852 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2020 | 68.80789472 | 68.17337314 | 69.86397259 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2021 | 67.63481911 | 66.83766425 | 68.36010241 | — |
One row per country, indicator and year, with raw values, source links and reuse notices. Thresholds have an empty numeric value and separate number/operator fields; value_kind distinguishes upper bounds from absent readings.