Tajikistan - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Tajikistan was 73.60 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 73.60 in 2020 and a minimum value of 52.17 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. (2) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (3) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (4) United Nations Statistical Division. Popu

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Year Value
1960 52.17
1961 52.49
1962 52.80
1963 53.12
1964 53.43
1965 53.75
1966 54.09
1967 54.44
1968 54.81
1969 55.20
1970 55.61
1971 56.03
1972 56.46
1973 56.89
1974 57.30
1975 57.68
1976 58.01
1977 58.28
1978 58.50
1979 58.69
1980 58.87
1981 59.09
1982 59.39
1983 59.77
1984 60.21
1985 60.68
1986 61.09
1987 61.39
1988 61.56
1989 61.59
1990 61.49
1991 61.32
1992 61.14
1993 61.02
1994 60.99
1995 61.11
1996 61.39
1997 61.83
1998 62.40
1999 63.10
2000 63.90
2001 64.78
2002 65.70
2003 66.62
2004 67.50
2005 68.32
2006 69.06
2007 69.71
2008 70.27
2009 70.75
2010 71.15
2011 71.49
2012 71.77
2013 72.03
2014 72.27
2015 72.51
2016 72.74
2017 72.96
2018 73.18
2019 73.39
2020 73.60

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