How many years of comparable data are there for French Guiana and Peru?

74 years are reported by both, from 1950 to 2023.

Where does this data come from?

Human Mortality Database (2025); UN, World Population Prospects (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data, published as Life expectancy by sex. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

French Guiana vs Peru: Life expectancy by sex

French Guiana

79.99 years

in 2023

Peru

80.12 years

in 2023

French Guiana rank

97th

Peru rank

94th

Life expectancy by sex over time

French Guiana
Peru

How they compare

Peru currently reports 80.12 years against 79.99 years in French Guiana, a difference of 0.13 years.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was French Guiana ahead.

French Guiana ranks 97th and Peru ranks 94th of 236 countries.

French Guiana has averaged higher in every one of the 8 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade	French Guiana	Peru	Difference	Ahead
1950s	54.57 years	49.39 years	5.18 years	French Guiana
1960s	64.1 years	54.99 years	9.11 years	French Guiana
1970s	68.96 years	58.62 years	10.34 years	French Guiana
1980s	73.38 years	63.8 years	9.57 years	French Guiana
1990s	75.6 years	68.61 years	7 years	French Guiana
2000s	77.81 years	73.72 years	4.09 years	French Guiana
2010s	79.38 years	77.29 years	2.09 years	French Guiana
2020s	79.53 years	77.88 years	1.64 years	French Guiana

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher life expectancy by sex, French Guiana or Peru?: Peru, at 80.12 years against 79.99 years in French Guiana as of 2023.
What is the difference in life expectancy by sex between French Guiana and Peru?: 0.13 years, with Peru ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for French Guiana and Peru?: 74 years are reported by both, from 1950 to 2023.
How do French Guiana and Peru rank globally for life expectancy by sex?: French Guiana ranks 97th and Peru ranks 94th of 236 countries.
Where does this data come from?: Human Mortality Database (2025); UN, World Population Prospects (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data, published as Life expectancy by sex. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

Individual pages

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

French Guiana vs Peru: Life expectancy by sex. Statizoid, drawing on Human Mortality Database (2025); UN, World Population Prospects (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data. Retrieved 01 September 2026, from https://population.statizoid.com/compare/life-expectation-at-birth-by-sex/french-guiana/peru/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://population.statizoid.com/compare/life-expectation-at-birth-by-sex/french-guiana/peru/">French Guiana vs Peru: Life expectancy by sex</a> — Statizoid

About this data

Indicator: Life expectancy by sex
Unit: years
Source: Human Mortality Database (2025); UN, World Population Prospects (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 236 places, 18,722 data points, 1751–2023
Last refreshed: 28 August 2026

Period life expectancy at birth among females, in a given year.