Sudan - Life expectancy at birth, total (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, total (years) in Sudan was 65.53 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 65.53 in 2020 and a minimum value of 48.19 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 48.19
1961 48.62
1962 49.04
1963 49.45
1964 49.85
1965 50.26
1966 50.66
1967 51.07
1968 51.47
1969 51.86
1970 52.23
1971 52.58
1972 52.90
1973 53.18
1974 53.43
1975 53.64
1976 53.81
1977 53.95
1978 54.06
1979 54.16
1980 54.25
1981 54.34
1982 54.44
1983 54.53
1984 54.65
1985 54.77
1986 54.90
1987 55.04
1988 55.18
1989 55.33
1990 55.50
1991 55.69
1992 55.90
1993 56.14
1994 56.41
1995 56.71
1996 57.03
1997 57.37
1998 57.73
1999 58.10
2000 58.47
2001 58.86
2002 59.26
2003 59.67
2004 60.09
2005 60.53
2006 60.97
2007 61.42
2008 61.88
2009 62.33
2010 62.76
2011 63.17
2012 63.54
2013 63.88
2014 64.17
2015 64.43
2016 64.66
2017 64.88
2018 65.10
2019 65.31
2020 65.53

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