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

The value for Life expectancy at birth, total (years) in Côte d'Ivoire was 58.10 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 58.10 in 2020 and a minimum value of 36.10 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 36.10
1961 36.95
1962 37.78
1963 38.58
1964 39.36
1965 40.12
1966 40.87
1967 41.65
1968 42.45
1969 43.28
1970 44.12
1971 44.98
1972 45.82
1973 46.64
1974 47.42
1975 48.15
1976 48.83
1977 49.46
1978 50.04
1979 50.58
1980 51.07
1981 51.53
1982 51.94
1983 52.31
1984 52.65
1985 52.92
1986 53.14
1987 53.29
1988 53.36
1989 53.35
1990 53.25
1991 53.06
1992 52.78
1993 52.42
1994 52.01
1995 51.57
1996 51.11
1997 50.66
1998 50.24
1999 49.89
2000 49.64
2001 49.50
2002 49.48
2003 49.57
2004 49.79
2005 50.12
2006 50.56
2007 51.09
2008 51.68
2009 52.31
2010 52.96
2011 53.62
2012 54.27
2013 54.91
2014 55.51
2015 56.07
2016 56.57
2017 57.02
2018 57.42
2019 57.78
2020 58.10

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