Healthy life expectancy — all countries

Healthy life expectancy — Guatemala

Healthy life expectancy in Guatemala in 2021 — 59.3 years. Ranked 127 in the world out of 185. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 0.9%.

2021 59.3 years −2.94% vs 2020
World rank 127of 185
Period maximum 62.5 years2019
Period minimum 58.7 years2000

Trend over time

2000–2021 · years

Healthy life expectancy — Guatemala, 2000–2021585960616263200020032006200920122015201820212000: 58.7 years2001: 59 years2002: 59.5 years2003: 59.6 years2004: 59.8 years2005: 59.5 years2006: 60 years2007: 60.6 years2008: 60.9 years2009: 60.8 years2010: 61 years2011: 61.4 years2012: 61.7 years2013: 61.6 years2014: 61.8 years2015: 61.9 years2016: 62.1 years2017: 62.5 years2018: 62.5 years2019: 62.5 years2020: 61.1 years2021: 59.3 years
Change over the period: +0.6 (+0.94%) Average annual rate: 0.04 %

Comparison, 2021

How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: Guatemala

Guatemala 59.3 years
World computed 62.2 years
Latin America & Caribbean computed 62.4 years
Central America computed 61.6 years
Upper-middle-income countries computed 65.5 years
Healthy life expectancy — Guatemala, by year Guatemala All countries CSV XLSX
Year years Change Change, %
2021 59.3 −1.8 −2.94%
2020 61.1 −1.5 −2.38%
2019 62.5 +0 +0.02%
2018 62.5 +0.1 +0.09%
2017 62.5 +0.4 +0.62%
2016 62.1 +0.2 +0.27%
2015 61.9 +0.1 +0.12%
2014 61.8 +0.2 +0.35%
2013 61.6 −0.1 −0.13%
2012 61.7 +0.3 +0.52%
2011 61.4 +0.4 +0.65%
2010 61 +0.2 +0.35%
2009 60.8 −0.1 −0.18%
2008 60.9 +0.3 +0.45%
2007 60.6 +0.7 +1.09%
2006 60 +0.4 +0.73%
2005 59.5 −0.3 −0.45%
2004 59.8 +0.2 +0.37%
2003 59.6 +0 +0.08%
2002 59.5 +0.5 +0.91%
2001 59 +0.3 +0.5%
2000 58.7

Central America, 2021

The same indicator for neighboring countries — with links to their pages

About the indicator

The expected number of years of life in full health at birth — the HALE indicator in WHO terminology. Years spent with illness or limitation enter the calculation with a reduced weight depending on the severity of the condition, so HALE is always lower than ordinary life expectancy. The difference between them is the expected time of life with health lost: in most countries it is about ten years, and as life expectancy grows the difference grows too rather than shrinking.

Important: This series is not in the World Development Indicators — only at WHO. The severity weights of conditions are taken as common to all countries, so the differences reflect the prevalence of diseases and not how a country regards disability.

Source: Global Health Observatory (WHO), license CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.