This is a list of South American countries by life expectancy at birth.

World Bank Group (2021)

Estimation of the World Bank Group for 2021.^[1][2][3] The data is filtered according to the list of countries in South America. The values in the World Bank Group tables are rounded. All calculations are based on raw data, so due to the nuances of rounding, in some places illusory inconsistencies of indicators arose, with a size of 0.01 year.

Countries	2021				Historical data									COVID-19 impact
	All	Male	Female	Sex gap	2000	2000 →2014	2014	2014 →2019	2019	2019 →2020	2020	2020 →2021	2021	2019 →2021	2014 →2021
Chile	78.94	76.47	81.44	4.97	76.87	2.60	79.47	0.85	80.33	−0.95	79.38	−0.43	78.94	−1.38	−0.53
Brazil	77.25	73.66	80.06	6.40	69.74	4.57	74.31	1.03	76.34	−1.33	74.01	-0,1	77.25	−0.10	−1.56
Uruguay	75.44	71.65	79.26	7.60	75.03	2.34	77.37	0.14	77.51	0.92	78.43	−2.99	75.44	−2.07	−1.93
Argentina	75.39	72.18	78.65	6.47	73.93	2.83	76.75	0.53	77.28	−1.39	75.89	−0.50	75.39	−1.89	−1.36
Ecuador	73.67	70.26	77.46	7.20	72.84	3.78	76.62	0.67	77.30	−5.14	72.15	1.52	73.67	−3.63	−2.95
Colombia	72.83	69.40	76.44	7.04	71.32	4.72	76.04	0.71	76.75	−1.98	74.77	−1.94	72.83	−3.92	−3.21
Peru	72.38	70.12	74.75	4.62	70.42	4.91	75.33	0.82	76.16	−2.49	73.67	−1.29	72.38	−3.78	−2.96
World	71.33	68.89	73.95	5.06	67.70	4.18	71.88	1.10	72.98	−0.74	72.24	−0.92	71.33	−1.65	−0.55
Venezuela	70.55	66.26	75.21	8.95	72.48	0.38	72.85	−0.69	72.16	−1.07	71.09	−0.54	70.55	−1.61	−2.30
Suriname	70.27	67.21	73.55	6.34	65.51	4.27	69.78	2.46	72.24	0.32	72.56	−2.29	70.27	−1.97	0.49
Paraguay	70.26	67.43	73.39	5.95	69.75	3.13	72.88	0.74	73.62	−0.44	73.18	−2.92	70.26	−3.36	−2.62
Guyana	65.67	62.48	69.10	6.62	64.48	3.40	67.88	1.24	69.12	−0.64	68.49	−2.81	65.67	−3.45	−2.21
Bolivia	63.63	60.88	66.80	5.92	62.35	4.82	67.16	0.68	67.84	−3.37	64.47	−0.84	63.63	−4.21	−3.53

Change in life expectancy in South America from 2019 to 2021^[1]

United Nations (2021)

Estimation of the analytical agency of the UN for 2019 and 2021.^[4][5][6] By default, the list is sorted by 2021.

Countries	2019				2021				2019 →2021
	All	Male	Female	Sex gap	All	Male	Female	Sex gap
Chile	80.2	77.8	82.4	4.6	78.9	76.5	81.4	4.9	−1.3
Argentina	76.7	73.2	80.0	6.8	75.4	72.2	78.6	6.4	−1.3
Uruguay	77.9	74.1	81.5	7.4	75.4	71.7	79.3	7.6	−2.5
Ecuador	77.0	74.3	79.8	5.5	73.7	70.3	77.5	7.2	−3.3
Brazil	75.9	72.2	79.6	7.4	72.8	69.6	76.0	6.4	−3.1
Colombia	77.3	74.5	80.0	5.5	72.8	69.4	76.4	7.0	−4.5
Peru	76.7	74.1	79.5	5.4	72.4	70.1	74.7	4.6	−4.3
World	72.8	70.6	75.0	4.4	71.4	68.9	74.0	5.1	−1.4
Venezuela	72.1	68.3	76.0	7.7	70.6	66.3	75.2	8.9	−1.5
Paraguay	74.3	72.3	76.4	4.1	70.3	67.4	73.4	6.0	−4.0
Suriname	71.7	68.5	75.1	6.6	70.3	67.2	73.6	6.4	−1.4
Guyana	69.9	66.9	73.1	6.2	65.7	62.5	69.1	6.6	−4.2
Bolivia	71.5	68.7	74.5	5.8	63.6	60.9	66.8	5.9	−7.9

WHO (2019)

Estimation of the World Health Organization for 2019.^[7][8]

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Countries	Life expectancy at birth					HALE at birth					Life expectancy at age 60					HALE at age 60
	All	M	F	FΔM	Δ 2000	All	M	F	FΔM	Δ 2000	All	M	F	FΔM	Δ 2000	All	M	F	FΔM	Δ 2000
Chile	80.7	78.1	83.2	5.1	3.9	70.0	69.0	71.1	2.1	3.0	24.3	22.4	25.9	3.5	3.0	18.4	17.3	19.3	2.0	2.0
Peru	79.9	78.5	81.3	2.8	5.5	69.5	69.2	69.8	0.6	4.6	24.4	23.7	25.1	1.4	2.1	18.5	18.3	18.7	0.4	1.5
Colombia	79.3	76.7	81.9	5.2	5.6	69.0	67.4	70.5	3.1	4.9	24.0	22.5	25.3	2.8	2.3	18.1	17.1	18.9	1.8	1.8
Ecuador	78.4	76.4	80.5	4.1	3.9	68.5	67.7	69.3	1.6	3.3	23.2	22.0	24.3	2.3	1.3	17.6	17.0	18.2	1.2	0.8
Americas[9]	77.2	74.5	79.8	5.3	3.1	66.2	64.8	67.5	2.7	2.1	22.7	21.2	24.0	2.8	1.6	16.6	15.7	17.4	1.7	0.9
Uruguay	77.1	73.5	80.6	7.1	2.3	67.5	65.4	69.5	4.1	1.6	21.7	19.0	24.0	5.0	1.1	16.6	14.9	18.2	3.3	0.6
Argentina	76.6	73.5	79.5	6.0	2.5	67.1	65.4	68.8	3.4	2.0	21.1	18.8	23.1	4.3	0.9	16.3	14.8	17.6	2.8	0.7
Brazil	75.9	72.4	79.4	7.0	4.4	65.4	63.4	67.4	4.0	3.7	21.9	20.1	23.5	3.4	2.2	16.4	15.2	17.4	2.2	1.6
Paraguay	75.8	73.1	78.8	5.7	1.0	65.8	64.5	67.3	2.8	0.8	21.8	20.2	23.5	3.3	−0.2	16.5	15.4	17.6	2.2	−0.3
Venezuela	73.9	69.9	78.2	8.3	−0.2	64.4	61.9	67.1	5.2	−0.3	21.7	19.7	23.6