St. Vincent and the Grenadines - Life expectancy at birth, total (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, total (years) in St. Vincent and the Grenadines was 72.66 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 72.66 in 2020 and a minimum value of 59.26 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 59.26
1961 59.89
1962 60.47
1963 61.01
1964 61.49
1965 61.92
1966 62.32
1967 62.68
1968 63.03
1969 63.36
1970 63.69
1971 64.03
1972 64.37
1973 64.71
1974 65.07
1975 65.45
1976 65.84
1977 66.26
1978 66.70
1979 67.14
1980 67.59
1981 68.03
1982 68.46
1983 68.86
1984 69.22
1985 69.55
1986 69.84
1987 70.08
1988 70.28
1989 70.45
1990 70.58
1991 70.67
1992 70.72
1993 70.75
1994 70.75
1995 70.75
1996 70.74
1997 70.73
1998 70.74
1999 70.76
2000 70.81
2001 70.88
2002 70.98
2003 71.09
2004 71.21
2005 71.33
2006 71.45
2007 71.55
2008 71.64
2009 71.72
2010 71.78
2011 71.83
2012 71.88
2013 71.94
2014 72.01
2015 72.10
2016 72.19
2017 72.30
2018 72.42
2019 72.53
2020 72.66

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