Russia - Life expectancy at birth, total (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, total (years) in Russia was 71.34 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 73.08 in 2019 and a minimum value of 64.47 in 1994.

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 66.06
1961 66.60
1962 67.02
1963 67.34
1964 67.57
1965 67.72
1966 67.81
1967 67.86
1968 67.87
1969 67.87
1970 68.13
1971 68.38
1972 68.31
1973 68.29
1974 68.32
1975 67.72
1976 67.49
1977 67.38
1978 67.39
1979 67.11
1980 67.03
1981 67.26
1982 67.81
1983 67.65
1984 67.20
1985 67.86
1986 69.39
1987 69.44
1988 69.46
1989 69.17
1990 68.89
1991 68.47
1992 66.87
1993 64.94
1994 64.47
1995 64.69
1996 65.85
1997 66.70
1998 67.03
1999 65.98
2000 65.48
2001 65.38
2002 65.13
2003 65.03
2004 65.47
2005 65.53
2006 66.73
2007 67.59
2008 67.95
2009 68.68
2010 68.84
2011 69.68
2012 70.07
2013 70.58
2014 70.74
2015 71.18
2016 71.65
2017 72.45
2018 72.66
2019 73.08
2020 71.34

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