French Polynesia - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in French Polynesia was 80.06 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 80.06 in 2020 and a minimum value of 57.89 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 57.89
1961 58.35
1962 58.78
1963 59.20
1964 59.64
1965 60.09
1966 60.55
1967 60.99
1968 61.41
1969 61.79
1970 62.14
1971 62.46
1972 62.76
1973 63.06
1974 63.37
1975 63.74
1976 64.20
1977 64.77
1978 65.43
1979 66.18
1980 66.97
1981 67.77
1982 68.51
1983 69.17
1984 69.72
1985 70.15
1986 70.45
1987 70.66
1988 70.81
1989 70.95
1990 71.09
1991 71.29
1992 71.57
1993 71.92
1994 72.36
1995 72.87
1996 73.41
1997 73.94
1998 74.44
1999 74.89
2000 75.29
2001 75.63
2002 75.94
2003 76.24
2004 76.52
2005 76.80
2006 77.07
2007 77.33
2008 77.57
2009 77.80
2010 78.03
2011 78.25
2012 78.47
2013 78.69
2014 78.91
2015 79.13
2016 79.34
2017 79.54
2018 79.73
2019 79.90
2020 80.06

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