Paraguay's life expectancy rose from 68.8 yrs in 1995 to 74.0 yrs in 2024.
Paraguay · Health
Longevity, mortality, health system capacity and risk factors.
23 indicators · 23 with data
Paraguay's healthy life expectancy at birth fell from 64.4 yrs in 2000 to 60.9 yrs in 2021.
Paraguay's infant mortality fell from 32.3 ‰ in 1995 to 14.5 ‰ in 2024.
Paraguay's under-5 mortality rate fell from 38.4 ‰ in 1995 to 16.3 ‰ in 2024.
Paraguay's maternal mortality ratio fell from 201.0 /100k in 1994 to 58.0 /100k in 2023.
Paraguay's ncd mortality fell from 17.5 % in 2000 to 16.1 % in 2021.
Paraguay's suicide mortality rate rose from 3.3 /100k in 2000 to 6.4 /100k in 2021.
Paraguay's mortality caused by road traffic injury rose from 9.4 /100k in 2000 to 22.0 /100k in 2019.
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- Health spendingup +0.6 pts55th of 192
- Current health expenditure per capita (current US$)up +9.7 %85th of 191
- Out-of-pocket expenditure (% of current health expenditure)down −2.6 pts128th of 192
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- Physiciansup +19.7 %27th of 129*
- Nurses and midwivesup +3.9 %17th of 129
- Hospital bedsdown −8.0 %99th of 113*
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- Immunization, measles (% of children ages 12–23 months)up +7.0 pts92nd of 192
- Immunization, DPT (% of children ages 12–23 months)up +9.0 pts144th of 192
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- Prevalence of HIV (ages 15–49)unchanged +0.0 pts81st of 148
- Incidence of tuberculosisup +6.6 %138th of 208
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- Safe drinking waterup +0.1 pts97th of 148
- Safe sanitationup +0.1 pts74th of 141