Central African Republic - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Central African Republic was 55.93 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 55.93 in 2020 and a minimum value of 37.75 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 37.75
1961 38.24
1962 38.73
1963 39.25
1964 39.79
1965 40.37
1966 41.00
1967 41.68
1968 42.41
1969 43.18
1970 44.00
1971 44.85
1972 45.73
1973 46.61
1974 47.48
1975 48.30
1976 49.05
1977 49.74
1978 50.33
1979 50.83
1980 51.23
1981 51.53
1982 51.75
1983 51.88
1984 51.95
1985 51.96
1986 51.90
1987 51.79
1988 51.61
1989 51.39
1990 51.09
1991 50.72
1992 50.26
1993 49.73
1994 49.14
1995 48.51
1996 47.85
1997 47.21
1998 46.61
1999 46.09
2000 45.69
2001 45.44
2002 45.35
2003 45.41
2004 45.62
2005 45.97
2006 46.43
2007 46.97
2008 47.55
2009 48.15
2010 48.79
2011 49.48
2012 50.24
2013 51.07
2014 51.93
2015 52.79
2016 53.61
2017 54.35
2018 54.99
2019 55.51
2020 55.93

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