IBRD only - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in IBRD only was 76.13 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 76.13 in 2020 and a minimum value of 50.36 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 50.36
1961 50.88
1962 51.48
1963 52.24
1964 53.14
1965 54.15
1966 55.20
1967 56.22
1968 57.20
1969 58.06
1970 58.86
1971 59.55
1972 60.16
1973 60.75
1974 61.34
1975 61.87
1976 62.41
1977 62.94
1978 63.43
1979 63.89
1980 64.32
1981 64.74
1982 65.13
1983 65.46
1984 65.76
1985 66.07
1986 66.42
1987 66.72
1988 67.02
1989 67.31
1990 67.60
1991 67.87
1992 68.08
1993 68.34
1994 68.65
1995 68.94
1996 69.27
1997 69.58
1998 69.87
1999 70.11
2000 70.38
2001 70.65
2002 70.91
2003 71.18
2004 71.48
2005 71.78
2006 72.12
2007 72.47
2008 72.82
2009 73.19
2010 73.54
2011 73.91
2012 74.25
2013 74.58
2014 74.88
2015 75.15
2016 75.41
2017 75.65
2018 75.85
2019 76.05
2020 76.13

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