Mexico - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Mexico was 77.93 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 78.04 in 2007 and a minimum value of 59.14 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 59.14
1961 59.75
1962 60.29
1963 60.77
1964 61.19
1965 61.59
1966 61.97
1967 62.36
1968 62.77
1969 63.21
1970 63.71
1971 64.27
1972 64.87
1973 65.51
1974 66.18
1975 66.85
1976 67.53
1977 68.19
1978 68.83
1979 69.42
1980 69.97
1981 70.48
1982 70.94
1983 71.37
1984 71.77
1985 72.15
1986 72.50
1987 72.85
1988 73.18
1989 73.51
1990 73.83
1991 74.15
1992 74.46
1993 74.76
1994 75.05
1995 75.35
1996 75.66
1997 75.98
1998 76.32
1999 76.66
2000 77.00
2001 77.30
2002 77.56
2003 77.77
2004 77.91
2005 78.00
2006 78.04
2007 78.04
2008 78.03
2009 78.00
2010 77.98
2011 77.95
2012 77.92
2013 77.89
2014 77.86
2015 77.84
2016 77.83
2017 77.83
2018 77.84
2019 77.88
2020 77.93

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