Guyana - Life expectancy at birth, total (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, total (years) in Guyana was 70.02 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 70.02 in 2020 and a minimum value of 60.26 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 60.26
1961 60.44
1962 60.62
1963 60.81
1964 60.98
1965 61.16
1966 61.32
1967 61.46
1968 61.59
1969 61.70
1970 61.79
1971 61.87
1972 61.94
1973 62.01
1974 62.07
1975 62.14
1976 62.21
1977 62.28
1978 62.36
1979 62.43
1980 62.50
1981 62.57
1982 62.63
1983 62.68
1984 62.74
1985 62.80
1986 62.87
1987 62.95
1988 63.05
1989 63.16
1990 63.29
1991 63.43
1992 63.58
1993 63.73
1994 63.89
1995 64.06
1996 64.26
1997 64.47
1998 64.71
1999 64.96
2000 65.24
2001 65.53
2002 65.83
2003 66.12
2004 66.41
2005 66.69
2006 66.97
2007 67.25
2008 67.52
2009 67.79
2010 68.06
2011 68.32
2012 68.58
2013 68.82
2014 69.05
2015 69.26
2016 69.45
2017 69.62
2018 69.77
2019 69.91
2020 70.02

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