Low income - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Low income was 65.96 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 65.96 in 2020 and a minimum value of 40.97 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 40.97
1961 41.42
1962 41.85
1963 42.30
1964 42.74
1965 43.21
1966 43.68
1967 44.16
1968 44.65
1969 45.13
1970 45.60
1971 46.06
1972 46.51
1973 46.94
1974 47.36
1975 47.75
1976 48.13
1977 48.49
1978 48.83
1979 49.17
1980 49.51
1981 49.86
1982 50.21
1983 50.55
1984 50.89
1985 51.22
1986 51.51
1987 51.75
1988 51.94
1989 52.10
1990 52.24
1991 52.39
1992 52.57
1993 52.78
1994 53.00
1995 53.24
1996 53.50
1997 53.80
1998 54.15
1999 54.55
2000 55.01
2001 55.52
2002 56.08
2003 56.69
2004 57.33
2005 58.01
2006 58.72
2007 59.43
2008 60.14
2009 60.82
2010 61.47
2011 62.07
2012 62.63
2013 63.16
2014 63.66
2015 64.12
2016 64.54
2017 64.93
2018 65.29
2019 65.63
2020 65.96

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