Belarus - Life expectancy at birth, total (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, total (years) in Belarus was 74.23 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 74.23 in 2020 and a minimum value of 67.71 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 67.71
1961 68.21
1962 68.64
1963 68.99
1964 69.29
1965 69.54
1966 69.73
1967 69.88
1968 69.98
1969 70.05
1970 70.08
1971 70.09
1972 70.09
1973 70.08
1974 70.07
1975 70.05
1976 70.02
1977 69.97
1978 69.91
1979 69.84
1980 69.80
1981 69.82
1982 69.91
1983 70.06
1984 70.27
1985 70.99
1986 71.55
1987 70.99
1988 71.34
1989 71.48
1990 70.84
1991 70.38
1992 70.02
1993 68.97
1994 68.77
1995 68.46
1996 68.51
1997 68.46
1998 68.41
1999 67.91
2000 68.91
2001 68.51
2002 68.06
2003 68.55
2004 68.96
2005 68.85
2006 69.40
2007 70.21
2008 70.46
2009 70.41
2010 70.40
2011 70.55
2012 71.97
2013 72.47
2014 72.97
2015 73.62
2016 73.83
2017 74.13
2018 74.18
2019 74.23
2020 74.23

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