World Development Indicators

Life expectancy at birth, total (years): Jamaica

Most recent: 71.61 (2024)
Earliest: 63.83 (1960)
Highest: 72.44 (2013)
Years reported: 65
Member state: Jamaica at the United Nations

Life expectancy at birth, total (years), 1960–2024. Bars, not a line: a line drawn across a year the source does not report would invent an observation a reader could not tell from a measured one.

Every year reported

Year	Life expectancy at birth
2024	71.61
2023	71.48
2022	71.48
2021	69.08
2020	71.45
2019	71.53
2018	71.61
2017	71.88
2016	72.05
2015	72.21
2014	72.36
2013	72.44
2012	72.41
2011	72.25
2010	71.98
2009	71.72
2008	71.5
2007	71.41
2006	71.39
2005	71.49
2004	71.54
2003	71.58
2002	71.48
2001	71.29
2000	71.28
1999	71.19
1998	71.17
1997	71.22
1996	71.33
1995	71.49
1994	71.62
1993	71.76
1992	71.82
1991	71.79
1990	71.7
1989	71.51
1988	71.16
1987	70.87
1986	70.45
1985	70.1
1984	69.81
1983	69.55
1982	69.25
1981	69.12
1980	68.99
1979	68.81
1978	68.74
1977	68.59
1976	68.41
1975	68.17
1974	67.91
1973	67.61
1972	67.3
1971	67
1970	66.73
1969	66.52
1968	66.32
1967	66.09
1966	65.93
1965	65.66
1964	65.35
1963	65
1962	64.62
1961	64.26
1960	63.83

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