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Life expectancy (from birth) in Colombia from 1870 to 2020*

Characteristic	Life expectancy in years
2020	77.02
2015	75.99
2010	74.83
2005	73.65
2000	72.13
1995	70.19
1990	69.39
1985	68.03
1980	65.67
1975	63.35
1970	60.94
1965	58.55
1960	55.74
1955	51.83
1950	49.2
1945	43.52
1940	38.86
1935	35.5
1930	33.54
1925	33.42
1920	32.5
1915	33.14
1910	33.02
1905	32.88
1900	32.74
1895	32.62
1890	32.48
1885	32.36
1880	32.22
1875	32.08
1870	32

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August 2019

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Colombia

Survey time period

1870 to 2020

Supplementary notes

*All data given is an average of the preceding five year period.
Data for the second source can be found .

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In 1870, the average person born in Colombia could expect to live to the age of 32 years old, a figure which would see only marginal increase in the country until the 1930s (with a minor decline in 1920 from the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic). However, life expectancy would begin to increase rapidly starting in the 1930s, as a series of reforms and modernization programs following the Great Depression, combined with a relatively quick recovery from the financial crisis, would see significant improvements in standards of living and access to healthcare in the country. As a result, life expectancy would increase by nearly twenty years between 1930 and 1950 alone, and this would continue at an accelerated rate through much of the remainder of the century. While the economic and political instability resulting from the increased drug cartel and government clashes of the 1990s would see a pause in life expectancy growth, increases have largely resumed in the 21^st century, and in 2020, it is estimated that the average person born in Columbia can expect to live to just over 77 years old.