Bolivia - Life expectancy at birth, total (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, total (years) in Bolivia was 71.77 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 71.77 in 2020 and a minimum value of 41.82 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 41.82
1961 42.15
1962 42.49
1963 42.84
1964 43.20
1965 43.57
1966 43.95
1967 44.34
1968 44.74
1969 45.15
1970 45.57
1971 46.00
1972 46.44
1973 46.89
1974 47.36
1975 47.83
1976 48.31
1977 48.81
1978 49.31
1979 49.82
1980 50.35
1981 50.88
1982 51.43
1983 51.98
1984 52.54
1985 53.12
1986 53.70
1987 54.28
1988 54.88
1989 55.49
1990 56.10
1991 56.72
1992 57.35
1993 57.99
1994 58.63
1995 59.28
1996 59.92
1997 60.57
1998 61.20
1999 61.84
2000 62.45
2001 63.05
2002 63.64
2003 64.21
2004 64.77
2005 65.31
2006 65.85
2007 66.40
2008 66.94
2009 67.48
2010 68.01
2011 68.52
2012 69.01
2013 69.47
2014 69.89
2015 70.28
2016 70.63
2017 70.95
2018 71.24
2019 71.51
2020 71.77

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