Equatorial Guinea - Life expectancy at birth, total (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, total (years) in Equatorial Guinea was 59.06 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 59.06 in 2020 and a minimum value of 36.54 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 36.54
1961 36.87
1962 37.21
1963 37.54
1964 37.87
1965 38.21
1966 38.54
1967 38.87
1968 39.20
1969 39.53
1970 39.85
1971 40.16
1972 40.45
1973 40.73
1974 41.02
1975 41.34
1976 41.74
1977 42.22
1978 42.79
1979 43.44
1980 44.13
1981 44.82
1982 45.47
1983 46.04
1984 46.53
1985 46.94
1986 47.29
1987 47.63
1988 47.98
1989 48.36
1990 48.78
1991 49.23
1992 49.71
1993 50.20
1994 50.69
1995 51.18
1996 51.66
1997 52.11
1998 52.54
1999 52.93
2000 53.28
2001 53.58
2002 53.84
2003 54.06
2004 54.26
2005 54.45
2006 54.64
2007 54.84
2008 55.07
2009 55.33
2010 55.62
2011 55.95
2012 56.29
2013 56.64
2014 57.00
2015 57.36
2016 57.71
2017 58.06
2018 58.40
2019 58.74
2020 59.06

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