Where you could be born / Latin America and the Caribbean / South America
Born in French Guiana
About 1 in 17,157 people born in 2023 started life in French Guiana. A boy can expect to live 74 years and a girl 80, up from 45 and 51 in 1950.
Life and health
Life lasts about 29 years longer than in 1950. Child deaths fell from 159 in every 1,000 births to 11.
GirlsBoys
Years a baby born that year could expect to live.
In every 1,000 births.
Family
Women had 4.9 children on average in 1950. Now it is 3.4.
Average over a lifetime.
Daily life
The largest city is Cayenne, with 61,550 people.
People on the move
About 1.5% as many people born here live abroad as live here. The most common destinations are Martinique, Guadeloupe, Brazil.
Safety nets
56% of older people receive a pension. Help for someone who loses a job reaches 50%.
Events in the data
The game draws real events from these records, so a life lived here can meet them.
Now live it.
Born in French Guiana, to a family drawn from these numbers. Every life replays exactly from its seed.
Elsewhere in Latin America and the Caribbean
How to read the sources. Every figure is sourced to a named dataset, shown beside it. A figure marked "Extrapolated" is estimated by a model because no survey covers the year. UN figures are for 2023, the latest year of UN estimates; other figures are the latest year their dataset has. Rank 1 is the highest figure among 230 countries and territories. All sources and licences