Armenia - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Armenia was 78.65 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 78.65 in 2020 and a minimum value of 69.06 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 69.06
1961 69.48
1962 69.91
1963 70.34
1964 70.76
1965 71.18
1966 71.60
1967 72.00
1968 72.39
1969 72.75
1970 73.06
1971 73.32
1972 73.50
1973 73.62
1974 73.68
1975 73.71
1976 73.73
1977 73.76
1978 73.82
1979 73.89
1980 73.92
1981 73.85
1982 73.64
1983 73.29
1984 72.81
1985 72.25
1986 71.70
1987 71.23
1988 70.91
1989 70.76
1990 70.78
1991 70.97
1992 71.26
1993 71.61
1994 71.99
1995 72.38
1996 72.79
1997 73.21
1998 73.64
1999 74.07
2000 74.47
2001 74.82
2002 75.11
2003 75.34
2004 75.51
2005 75.64
2006 75.75
2007 75.87
2008 76.00
2009 76.17
2010 76.38
2011 76.63
2012 76.90
2013 77.17
2014 77.45
2015 77.71
2016 77.95
2017 78.17
2018 78.35
2019 78.52
2020 78.65

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