Equatorial Guinea - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Equatorial Guinea was 60.25 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 60.25 in 2020 and a minimum value of 37.96 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 37.96
1961 38.30
1962 38.64
1963 38.98
1964 39.32
1965 39.66
1966 39.99
1967 40.32
1968 40.66
1969 40.99
1970 41.31
1971 41.62
1972 41.91
1973 42.20
1974 42.49
1975 42.82
1976 43.22
1977 43.71
1978 44.29
1979 44.94
1980 45.64
1981 46.34
1982 46.98
1983 47.55
1984 48.04
1985 48.44
1986 48.79
1987 49.13
1988 49.48
1989 49.87
1990 50.29
1991 50.75
1992 51.23
1993 51.72
1994 52.21
1995 52.68
1996 53.14
1997 53.56
1998 53.95
1999 54.31
2000 54.62
2001 54.88
2002 55.10
2003 55.29
2004 55.45
2005 55.62
2006 55.80
2007 56.00
2008 56.25
2009 56.53
2010 56.86
2011 57.20
2012 57.56
2013 57.92
2014 58.27
2015 58.60
2016 58.93
2017 59.26
2018 59.59
2019 59.92
2020 60.25

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