Burundi - Life expectancy at birth, total (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, total (years) in Burundi was 61.92 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 61.92 in 2020 and a minimum value of 41.28 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, or derived from male and female life expectancy at birth from sources such as: (2) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (3)

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Year Value
1960 41.28
1961 41.59
1962 41.91
1963 42.23
1964 42.54
1965 42.84
1966 43.11
1967 43.33
1968 43.52
1969 43.69
1970 43.84
1971 44.02
1972 44.25
1973 44.53
1974 44.87
1975 45.24
1976 45.63
1977 46.00
1978 46.33
1979 46.61
1980 46.85
1981 47.08
1982 47.32
1983 47.58
1984 47.84
1985 48.08
1986 48.24
1987 48.30
1988 48.24
1989 48.08
1990 47.83
1991 47.52
1992 47.21
1993 46.95
1994 46.79
1995 46.76
1996 46.91
1997 47.23
1998 47.71
1999 48.34
2000 49.09
2001 49.93
2002 50.81
2003 51.69
2004 52.55
2005 53.37
2006 54.16
2007 54.94
2008 55.72
2009 56.49
2010 57.23
2011 57.93
2012 58.57
2013 59.15
2014 59.67
2015 60.12
2016 60.53
2017 60.90
2018 61.25
2019 61.58
2020 61.92

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