Finland - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Finland was 85.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 85.00 in 2020 and a minimum value of 72.24 in 1961.

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. (2) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (3) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (4) United Nations Statistical Division. Popu

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Year Value
1960 72.40
1961 72.24
1962 72.24
1963 72.68
1964 72.96
1965 72.85
1966 73.17
1967 73.59
1968 73.55
1969 73.56
1970 74.40
1971 74.32
1972 75.02
1973 75.69
1974 75.55
1975 76.14
1976 76.31
1977 76.96
1978 77.43
1979 77.55
1980 77.85
1981 78.09
1982 78.58
1983 78.36
1984 78.76
1985 78.51
1986 78.76
1987 78.71
1988 78.69
1989 78.90
1990 78.88
1991 79.32
1992 79.43
1993 79.48
1994 80.15
1995 80.21
1996 80.54
1997 80.51
1998 80.84
1999 81.02
2000 81.00
2001 81.50
2002 81.50
2003 81.80
2004 82.30
2005 82.30
2006 82.80
2007 82.90
2008 83.00
2009 83.10
2010 83.20
2011 83.80
2012 83.70
2013 84.10
2014 84.10
2015 84.40
2016 84.40
2017 84.50
2018 84.50
2019 84.80
2020 85.00

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