El Salvador · Life Expectancy at Birth (WHO)

71.7 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 independently qualified uncertainty endpoints
Country	Year	Reading	Lower endpoint	Upper endpoint	Publisher note
El Salvador	2000	71.64575132	71.318899	72.00945912	—
El Salvador	2001	71.7165175	71.45582879	72.03902301	—
El Salvador	2002	73.27326528	73.00545606	73.62767203	—
El Salvador	2003	73.05229991	72.79678213	73.36884524	—
El Salvador	2004	73.29271781	72.99733679	73.57390985	—
El Salvador	2005	73.40349475	73.16944503	73.68502283	—
El Salvador	2006	73.70492095	73.45208818	74.0312364	—
El Salvador	2007	74.16542856	73.98074003	74.46680019	—
El Salvador	2008	74.41041249	74.25557862	74.6713673	—
El Salvador	2009	74.00196009	73.79036177	74.213432	—
El Salvador	2010	74.56329622	74.38148926	74.78968089	—
El Salvador	2011	74.57443118	74.39657374	74.80425836	—
El Salvador	2012	75.27280087	75.08194526	75.48853826	—
El Salvador	2013	74.78717919	74.6108704	75.01048218	—
El Salvador	2014	73.8558025	73.69672151	74.07982284	—
El Salvador	2015	72.73292352	72.54350016	72.97874319	—
El Salvador	2016	73.58698324	73.39242016	73.80982235	—
El Salvador	2017	73.71813956	73.50303873	73.93349917	—
El Salvador	2018	74.65055232	74.45452472	74.88826983	—
El Salvador	2019	74.28004903	74.09194934	74.54831367	—
El Salvador	2020	72.06392712	71.71185423	72.551275	—
El Salvador	2021	71.66703998	71.15638769	72.26613376	—