Small states - Life expectancy at birth, total (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, total (years) in Small states was 69.95 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 69.95 in 2020 and a minimum value of 55.02 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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1960 55.02
1961 55.45
1962 55.87
1963 56.25
1964 56.63
1965 56.99
1966 57.31
1967 57.62
1968 57.92
1969 58.22
1970 58.52
1971 58.81
1972 59.11
1973 59.39
1974 59.67
1975 59.97
1976 60.29
1977 60.61
1978 60.97
1979 61.33
1980 61.73
1981 62.10
1982 62.51
1983 62.83
1984 63.14
1985 63.42
1986 63.72
1987 64.00
1988 64.13
1989 64.24
1990 64.29
1991 64.34
1992 64.33
1993 64.16
1994 63.98
1995 63.87
1996 63.78
1997 63.62
1998 63.34
1999 63.20
2000 63.11
2001 63.03
2002 63.09
2003 63.14
2004 63.36
2005 63.68
2006 64.04
2007 64.52
2008 65.07
2009 65.64
2010 66.22
2011 66.75
2012 67.27
2013 67.77
2014 68.21
2015 68.61
2016 68.96
2017 69.28
2018 69.54
2019 69.78
2020 69.95

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