Life Expectancy at Birth in Costa Rica: 1800 to Today (and Tomorrow)

Life expectancy at birth measures how many years a newborn could expect to live, given the mortality of the time and place. For Costa Rica, these numbers tell a quiet story about the span of human existence, charting the fragile beginnings of the past toward the longer horizons of the modern era. Every value recorded here is a statistical fact about the lives actually lived there, reflecting the slow retreat of early death and the gradual lengthening of days.

The historical arc moves with steady momentum. In the 1800s estimate, life expectancy stood at 30 years, creeping upward through the 1810s estimate at 30.2, the 1820s estimate at 30.4, the 1830s estimate at 30.6, the 1840s estimate at 30.8, the 1850s estimate at 31, the 1860s estimate at 31.2, the 1870s estimate at 31.4, the 1880s estimate at 31.6, the 1890s estimate at 31.8, and reaching the 1900s estimate at 32. The pace then quickened through the 1910s estimate at 35.8 and the 1920s estimate at 39.6.

By the 2020s, life expectancy at birth in Costa Rica stands at 75 years — ranking #76 of 157 countries. For anyone born into these shifting eras, the statistical probability of how long you might walk the earth transforms utterly. Projections anticipate continued growth, reaching the 2070s projection at 81, the 2080s projection at 82.2, the 2090s projection at 83.4, and the 2100s projection at 84.6.

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