Chad - Life expectancy at birth, total (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, total (years) in Chad was 54.51 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 54.51 in 2020 and a minimum value of 38.02 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 38.02
1961 38.28
1962 38.54
1963 38.80
1964 39.06
1965 39.34
1966 39.67
1967 40.03
1968 40.44
1969 40.88
1970 41.34
1971 41.81
1972 42.26
1973 42.68
1974 43.06
1975 43.40
1976 43.70
1977 43.98
1978 44.25
1979 44.52
1980 44.79
1981 45.07
1982 45.35
1983 45.63
1984 45.90
1985 46.16
1986 46.40
1987 46.60
1988 46.77
1989 46.91
1990 47.02
1991 47.11
1992 47.19
1993 47.27
1994 47.35
1995 47.43
1996 47.50
1997 47.56
1998 47.61
1999 47.66
2000 47.71
2001 47.79
2002 47.90
2003 48.06
2004 48.27
2005 48.55
2006 48.91
2007 49.34
2008 49.82
2009 50.35
2010 50.89
2011 51.42
2012 51.93
2013 52.39
2014 52.79
2015 53.14
2016 53.44
2017 53.71
2018 53.98
2019 54.24
2020 54.51

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