Bhutan - Life expectancy at birth

Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Bhutan was 68.87 as of 2010. As the graph below shows, over the past 50 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 68.87 in 2010 and a minimum value of 37.46 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, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Reprot (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.

See also:

Year Value
1960 37.46
1961 37.74
1962 38.03
1963 38.35
1964 38.70
1965 39.07
1966 39.47
1967 39.89
1968 40.34
1969 40.81
1970 41.31
1971 41.83
1972 42.38
1973 42.95
1974 43.54
1975 44.15
1976 44.79
1977 45.44
1978 46.12
1979 46.80
1980 47.48
1981 48.16
1982 48.82
1983 49.47
1984 50.10
1985 50.73
1986 51.37
1987 52.02
1988 52.70
1989 53.42
1990 54.18
1991 54.98
1992 55.81
1993 56.67
1994 57.55
1995 58.45
1996 59.38
1997 60.32
1998 61.27
1999 62.22
2000 63.13
2001 63.99
2002 64.78
2003 65.49
2004 66.12
2005 66.68
2006 67.17
2007 67.62
2008 68.05
2009 68.46
2010 68.87

Life expectancy at birth, total (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, total (years) in Bhutan was 66.91 as of 2010. As the graph below shows, over the past 50 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 66.91 in 2010 and a minimum value of 37.08 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: Derived from male and female life expectancy at birth from sources such as: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Reprot (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.

See also:

Year Value
1960 37.08
1961 37.31
1962 37.58
1963 37.87
1964 38.18
1965 38.52
1966 38.89
1967 39.28
1968 39.69
1969 40.13
1970 40.59
1971 41.07
1972 41.58
1973 42.12
1974 42.67
1975 43.25
1976 43.84
1977 44.46
1978 45.09
1979 45.72
1980 46.36
1981 46.98
1982 47.59
1983 48.18
1984 48.76
1985 49.34
1986 49.93
1987 50.54
1988 51.18
1989 51.86
1990 52.59
1991 53.36
1992 54.16
1993 54.99
1994 55.85
1995 56.72
1996 57.63
1997 58.56
1998 59.51
1999 60.46
2000 61.37
2001 62.24
2002 63.03
2003 63.73
2004 64.35
2005 64.88
2006 65.34
2007 65.76
2008 66.15
2009 66.53
2010 66.91

Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Bhutan was 65.04 as of 2010. As the graph below shows, over the past 50 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 65.04 in 2010 and a minimum value of 36.71 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, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Reprot (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.

See also:

Year Value
1960 36.71
1961 36.91
1962 37.15
1963 37.41
1964 37.69
1965 38.00
1966 38.33
1967 38.69
1968 39.07
1969 39.48
1970 39.90
1971 40.35
1972 40.83
1973 41.33
1974 41.85
1975 42.39
1976 42.94
1977 43.52
1978 44.11
1979 44.70
1980 45.29
1981 45.86
1982 46.42
1983 46.96
1984 47.49
1985 48.01
1986 48.55
1987 49.12
1988 49.73
1989 50.38
1990 51.08
1991 51.82
1992 52.60
1993 53.40
1994 54.23
1995 55.08
1996 55.97
1997 56.89
1998 57.83
1999 58.78
2000 59.70
2001 60.57
2002 61.36
2003 62.06
2004 62.66
2005 63.17
2006 63.60
2007 63.98
2008 64.34
2009 64.69
2010 65.04

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Mortality