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

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in IDA only was 67.83 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 67.83 in 2020 and a minimum value of 42.04 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 42.04
1961 42.52
1962 43.00
1963 43.48
1964 43.95
1965 44.40
1966 44.81
1967 45.17
1968 45.49
1969 45.77
1970 46.02
1971 46.28
1972 46.56
1973 46.89
1974 47.27
1975 47.71
1976 48.20
1977 48.72
1978 49.25
1979 49.78
1980 50.30
1981 50.80
1982 51.28
1983 51.76
1984 52.23
1985 52.67
1986 53.07
1987 53.44
1988 53.75
1989 54.05
1990 54.33
1991 54.60
1992 54.89
1993 55.20
1994 55.53
1995 55.87
1996 56.24
1997 56.62
1998 57.01
1999 57.43
2000 57.86
2001 58.32
2002 58.81
2003 59.35
2004 59.91
2005 60.51
2006 61.13
2007 61.77
2008 62.40
2009 63.02
2010 63.61
2011 64.17
2012 64.70
2013 65.20
2014 65.67
2015 66.11
2016 66.51
2017 66.88
2018 67.22
2019 67.53
2020 67.83

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