Montenegro - Life expectancy at birth, total (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, total (years) in Montenegro was 75.93 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 76.84 in 2018 and a minimum value of 63.71 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 63.71
1961 64.39
1962 65.06
1963 65.70
1964 66.31
1965 66.88
1966 67.45
1967 68.01
1968 68.59
1969 69.17
1970 69.74
1971 70.28
1972 70.76
1973 71.18
1974 71.52
1975 71.81
1976 72.05
1977 72.26
1978 72.47
1979 72.67
1980 72.87
1981 73.07
1982 73.26
1983 73.42
1984 73.57
1985 73.71
1986 73.86
1987 74.01
1988 74.16
1989 74.32
1990 74.44
1991 74.51
1992 74.50
1993 74.41
1994 74.24
1995 74.02
1996 73.78
1997 73.55
1998 73.36
1999 73.24
2000 73.18
2001 73.19
2002 73.24
2003 73.32
2004 73.43
2005 73.98
2006 73.84
2007 74.34
2008 75.14
2009 75.14
2010 75.99
2011 75.98
2012 76.20
2013 76.49
2014 76.44
2015 76.45
2016 76.44
2017 76.49
2018 76.84
2019 76.68
2020 75.93

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