Fragile and conflict affected situations - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Fragile and conflict affected situations was 64.54 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 64.54 in 2020 and a minimum value of 42.54 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. (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 42.54
1961 43.06
1962 43.58
1963 44.09
1964 44.59
1965 45.09
1966 45.58
1967 46.06
1968 46.54
1969 47.02
1970 47.48
1971 47.94
1972 48.39
1973 48.83
1974 49.25
1975 49.66
1976 50.06
1977 50.45
1978 50.83
1979 51.20
1980 51.58
1981 51.94
1982 52.29
1983 52.63
1984 52.95
1985 53.25
1986 53.52
1987 53.78
1988 54.01
1989 54.21
1990 54.45
1991 54.61
1992 54.76
1993 54.89
1994 55.03
1995 55.17
1996 55.32
1997 55.49
1998 55.67
1999 55.89
2000 56.15
2001 56.46
2002 56.83
2003 57.24
2004 57.71
2005 58.21
2006 58.74
2007 59.29
2008 59.84
2009 60.37
2010 60.87
2011 61.35
2012 61.81
2013 62.24
2014 62.65
2015 63.03
2016 63.37
2017 63.69
2018 63.98
2019 64.27
2020 64.54

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