Afghanistan - Life expectancy at birth

Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Afghanistan was 66.74 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 66.74 in 2020 and a minimum value of 33.31 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 33.31
1961 33.84
1962 34.36
1963 34.87
1964 35.36
1965 35.85
1966 36.34
1967 36.82
1968 37.31
1969 37.82
1970 38.33
1971 38.85
1972 39.39
1973 39.93
1974 40.49
1975 41.06
1976 41.66
1977 42.27
1978 42.89
1979 43.54
1980 44.21
1981 44.90
1982 45.61
1983 46.33
1984 47.07
1985 47.81
1986 48.55
1987 49.29
1988 50.02
1989 50.74
1990 51.44
1991 52.12
1992 52.77
1993 53.41
1994 54.01
1995 54.59
1996 55.14
1997 55.66
1998 56.16
1999 56.65
2000 57.12
2001 57.60
2002 58.08
2003 58.58
2004 59.09
2005 59.63
2006 60.18
2007 60.75
2008 61.33
2009 61.90
2010 62.46
2011 63.00
2012 63.51
2013 64.00
2014 64.45
2015 64.88
2016 65.28
2017 65.66
2018 66.03
2019 66.39
2020 66.74

Life expectancy at birth, total (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, total (years) in Afghanistan was 65.17 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 65.17 in 2020 and a minimum value of 32.45 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 32.45
1961 32.96
1962 33.47
1963 33.97
1964 34.46
1965 34.95
1966 35.43
1967 35.91
1968 36.40
1969 36.90
1970 37.41
1971 37.93
1972 38.46
1973 39.00
1974 39.56
1975 40.13
1976 40.72
1977 41.32
1978 41.94
1979 42.59
1980 43.24
1981 43.92
1982 44.62
1983 45.32
1984 46.04
1985 46.76
1986 47.49
1987 48.21
1988 48.93
1989 49.64
1990 50.33
1991 51.00
1992 51.64
1993 52.26
1994 52.84
1995 53.40
1996 53.92
1997 54.42
1998 54.91
1999 55.38
2000 55.84
2001 56.31
2002 56.78
2003 57.27
2004 57.77
2005 58.29
2006 58.83
2007 59.38
2008 59.93
2009 60.48
2010 61.03
2011 61.55
2012 62.05
2013 62.53
2014 62.97
2015 63.38
2016 63.76
2017 64.13
2018 64.49
2019 64.83
2020 65.17

Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Afghanistan was 63.71 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 63.71 in 2020 and a minimum value of 31.72 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 31.72
1961 32.22
1962 32.72
1963 33.22
1964 33.70
1965 34.18
1966 34.66
1967 35.13
1968 35.62
1969 36.11
1970 36.61
1971 37.12
1972 37.64
1973 38.18
1974 38.73
1975 39.29
1976 39.87
1977 40.47
1978 41.09
1979 41.72
1980 42.37
1981 43.04
1982 43.72
1983 44.40
1984 45.10
1985 45.80
1986 46.50
1987 47.20
1988 47.91
1989 48.60
1990 49.28
1991 49.94
1992 50.57
1993 51.17
1994 51.75
1995 52.29
1996 52.80
1997 53.29
1998 53.75
1999 54.21
2000 54.66
2001 55.12
2002 55.58
2003 56.06
2004 56.54
2005 57.04
2006 57.56
2007 58.09
2008 58.63
2009 59.16
2010 59.68
2011 60.19
2012 60.68
2013 61.13
2014 61.56
2015 61.97
2016 62.34
2017 62.70
2018 63.05
2019 63.38
2020 63.71

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Mortality