Guinea - Life expectancy at birth, total (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, total (years) in Guinea was 61.96 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 61.96 in 2020 and a minimum value of 34.89 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 34.89
1961 35.09
1962 35.27
1963 35.43
1964 35.59
1965 35.74
1966 35.89
1967 36.05
1968 36.22
1969 36.42
1970 36.66
1971 36.93
1972 37.26
1973 37.62
1974 38.04
1975 38.50
1976 39.00
1977 39.53
1978 40.08
1979 40.67
1980 41.30
1981 42.00
1982 42.78
1983 43.64
1984 44.56
1985 45.52
1986 46.50
1987 47.47
1988 48.40
1989 49.25
1990 49.99
1991 50.59
1992 51.07
1993 51.41
1994 51.64
1995 51.74
1996 51.73
1997 51.62
1998 51.46
1999 51.30
2000 51.20
2001 51.26
2002 51.48
2003 51.90
2004 52.50
2005 53.24
2006 54.05
2007 54.86
2008 55.61
2009 56.28
2010 56.86
2011 57.39
2012 57.91
2013 58.45
2014 59.02
2015 59.60
2016 60.17
2017 60.71
2018 61.19
2019 61.60
2020 61.96

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