Lebanon - Life expectancy at birth, total (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, total (years) in Lebanon was 79.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 79.00 in 2020 and a minimum value of 63.27 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 63.27
1961 63.58
1962 63.87
1963 64.16
1964 64.44
1965 64.71
1966 64.98
1967 65.26
1968 65.53
1969 65.80
1970 66.07
1971 66.32
1972 66.57
1973 66.79
1974 67.00
1975 67.18
1976 67.35
1977 67.51
1978 67.66
1979 67.80
1980 67.95
1981 68.11
1982 68.29
1983 68.48
1984 68.69
1985 68.92
1986 69.16
1987 69.42
1988 69.69
1989 69.97
1990 70.27
1991 70.58
1992 70.93
1993 71.30
1994 71.70
1995 72.13
1996 72.58
1997 73.05
1998 73.53
1999 74.02
2000 74.51
2001 75.00
2002 75.49
2003 75.97
2004 76.43
2005 76.87
2006 77.26
2007 77.61
2008 77.91
2009 78.16
2010 78.36
2011 78.51
2012 78.61
2013 78.68
2014 78.73
2015 78.77
2016 78.80
2017 78.83
2018 78.88
2019 78.93
2020 79.00

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