Côte d'Ivoire - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Côte d'Ivoire was 59.46 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 59.46 in 2020 and a minimum value of 36.57 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 36.57
1961 37.53
1962 38.47
1963 39.38
1964 40.25
1965 41.10
1966 41.95
1967 42.83
1968 43.75
1969 44.70
1970 45.67
1971 46.64
1972 47.58
1973 48.46
1974 49.28
1975 50.03
1976 50.72
1977 51.35
1978 51.94
1979 52.49
1980 53.00
1981 53.47
1982 53.91
1983 54.30
1984 54.65
1985 54.94
1986 55.16
1987 55.31
1988 55.38
1989 55.37
1990 55.27
1991 55.07
1992 54.78
1993 54.41
1994 53.99
1995 53.54
1996 53.06
1997 52.59
1998 52.15
1999 51.77
2000 51.48
2001 51.31
2002 51.26
2003 51.33
2004 51.51
2005 51.82
2006 52.23
2007 52.71
2008 53.25
2009 53.82
2010 54.41
2011 55.01
2012 55.61
2013 56.21
2014 56.79
2015 57.34
2016 57.85
2017 58.32
2018 58.74
2019 59.12
2020 59.46

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