Cyprus - Life expectancy at birth, total (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, total (years) in Cyprus was 81.14 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 81.14 in 2020 and a minimum value of 69.62 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 69.62
1961 69.95
1962 70.27
1963 70.59
1964 70.90
1965 71.20
1966 71.49
1967 71.78
1968 72.05
1969 72.32
1970 72.58
1971 72.83
1972 73.07
1973 73.30
1974 73.53
1975 73.75
1976 73.97
1977 74.18
1978 74.39
1979 74.59
1980 74.79
1981 74.98
1982 75.17
1983 75.36
1984 75.54
1985 75.72
1986 75.89
1987 76.06
1988 76.23
1989 76.39
1990 76.55
1991 76.71
1992 76.87
1993 77.02
1994 77.17
1995 77.31
1996 77.46
1997 77.60
1998 77.74
1999 77.88
2000 78.01
2001 78.14
2002 78.26
2003 78.39
2004 78.51
2005 78.63
2006 78.76
2007 78.91
2008 79.07
2009 79.25
2010 79.43
2011 79.62
2012 79.81
2013 80.00
2014 80.18
2015 80.35
2016 80.51
2017 80.67
2018 80.83
2019 80.98
2020 81.14

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