Eswatini - Life expectancy at birth, total (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, total (years) in Eswatini was 60.72 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 61.95 in 1990 and a minimum value of 42.52 in 2005.

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 43.57
1961 43.95
1962 44.33
1963 44.70
1964 45.08
1965 45.49
1966 45.93
1967 46.41
1968 46.94
1969 47.51
1970 48.13
1971 48.79
1972 49.48
1973 50.19
1974 50.92
1975 51.66
1976 52.42
1977 53.20
1978 53.99
1979 54.80
1980 55.61
1981 56.45
1982 57.31
1983 58.16
1984 58.98
1985 59.75
1986 60.46
1987 61.08
1988 61.57
1989 61.89
1990 61.95
1991 61.70
1992 61.11
1993 60.19
1994 58.96
1995 57.42
1996 55.61
1997 53.60
1998 51.50
1999 49.42
2000 47.49
2001 45.80
2002 44.41
2003 43.37
2004 42.73
2005 42.52
2006 42.73
2007 43.31
2008 44.17
2009 45.28
2010 46.60
2011 48.14
2012 49.86
2013 51.70
2014 53.57
2015 55.36
2016 56.96
2017 58.32
2018 59.40
2019 60.19
2020 60.72

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