Life expectancy in Colombia from 1870 to 2020

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.