Costa Rica · Life Expectancy at Birth (WHO)
78.6 years2021
Unit: years. Publisher measure: Life expectancy at birth (years).
Life expectancy at birth for the country population, both sexes, under the mortality rates of the reference year.
Measurement basis: WHO modelled period life-table estimates based on sex- and age-specific mortality.
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 | 78.16621895 | 78.07214045 | 78.30092403 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2001 | 78.07165726 | 78.01048347 | 78.20445353 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2002 | 78.85732142 | 78.7829884 | 79.03018606 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2003 | 78.7075014 | 78.63955854 | 78.85881143 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2004 | 78.67775018 | 78.58338983 | 78.83848089 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2005 | 79.72199388 | 79.62558484 | 79.86993561 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2006 | 79.36411318 | 79.28522573 | 79.50458769 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2007 | 80.2305467 | 80.13939951 | 80.3816429 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2008 | 80.2939043 | 80.21691797 | 80.44773783 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2009 | 80.60955741 | 80.5280649 | 80.75832621 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2010 | 79.51380421 | 79.41937005 | 79.65944025 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2011 | 80.26271645 | 80.1803304 | 80.39521269 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2012 | 80.42316166 | 80.34378462 | 80.56586067 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2013 | 80.59788537 | 80.53751691 | 80.75401278 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2014 | 80.47995762 | 80.4154582 | 80.62220332 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2015 | 80.57423676 | 80.50061954 | 80.71916583 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2016 | 80.11048492 | 80.03573376 | 80.25081301 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2017 | 80.19506162 | 80.1294973 | 80.33275874 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2018 | 80.28882351 | 80.20618399 | 80.44093712 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2019 | 80.30073211 | 80.20403879 | 80.42344824 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2020 | 79.99304212 | 79.90856101 | 80.14332506 | — |
| Costa Rica | 2021 | 78.63053412 | 78.55330677 | 78.79600033 | — |
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.