Djibouti - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Djibouti was 69.77 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 69.77 in 2020 and a minimum value of 45.38 in 1960.

Definition: Life expectancy at birth indicates the number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life.

Source: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects: 2019 Revision. (2) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (3) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (4) United Nations Statistical Division. Popu

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Year Value
1960 45.38
1961 45.80
1962 46.22
1963 46.63
1964 47.05
1965 47.49
1966 47.98
1967 48.54
1968 49.17
1969 49.86
1970 50.58
1971 51.28
1972 51.93
1973 52.49
1974 52.97
1975 53.37
1976 53.73
1977 54.07
1978 54.42
1979 54.80
1980 55.20
1981 55.61
1982 56.01
1983 56.39
1984 56.73
1985 57.04
1986 57.32
1987 57.59
1988 57.83
1989 58.07
1990 58.27
1991 58.45
1992 58.59
1993 58.68
1994 58.74
1995 58.76
1996 58.74
1997 58.70
1998 58.66
1999 58.62
2000 58.61
2001 58.65
2002 58.75
2003 58.91
2004 59.15
2005 59.45
2006 59.80
2007 60.19
2008 60.61
2009 61.07
2010 61.61
2011 62.27
2012 63.07
2013 63.99
2014 65.02
2015 66.09
2016 67.11
2017 68.02
2018 68.78
2019 69.36
2020 69.77

Development Relevance: Mortality rates for different age groups (infants, children, and adults) and overall mortality indicators (life expectancy at birth or survival to a given age) are important indicators of health status in a country. Because data on the incidence and prevalence of diseases are frequently unavailable, mortality rates are often used to identify vulnerable populations. And they are among the indicators most frequently used to compare socioeconomic development across countries.

Limitations and Exceptions: Annual data series from United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects are interpolated data from 5-year period data. Therefore they may not reflect real events as much as observed data.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: Life expectancy at birth used here is the average number of years a newborn is expected to live if mortality patterns at the time of its birth remain constant in the future. It reflects the overall mortality level of a population, and summarizes the mortality pattern that prevails across all age groups in a given year. It is calculated in a period life table which provides a snapshot of a population's mortality pattern at a given time. It therefore does not reflect the mortality pattern that a person actually experiences during his/her life, which can be calculated in a cohort life table. High mortality in young age groups significantly lowers the life expectancy at birth. But if a person survives his/her childhood of high mortality, he/she may live much longer. For example, in a population with a life expectancy at birth of 50, there may be few people dying at age 50. The life expectancy at birth may be low due to the high childhood mortality so that once a person survives his/her childhood, he/she may live much longer than 50 years.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Mortality