Paraguay vs Suriname: Life expectancy

Paraguay

73.84 years

in 2023

Suriname

73.63 years

in 2023

Paraguay rank

131st

Suriname rank

134th

Life expectancy over time

Paraguay
Suriname

How they compare

Paraguay currently reports 73.84 years against 73.63 years in Suriname, a difference of 0.2133 years.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Paraguay ahead.

Paraguay ranks 131st and Suriname ranks 134th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Life expectancy in Paraguay
Life expectancy in Suriname
Full country ranking

About this data

Indicator: Life expectancy
Unit: years
Source: Riley (2005); Zijdeman et al. (2015); HMD (2025); UN WPP (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 236 places, 19,452 data points, 1543–2023
Last refreshed: 06 August 2026

Period life expectancy is the number of years the average person born in a certain year would live if they experienced the same chances of dying at each age as people did that year.