Gabon - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Gabon was 68.93 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 68.93 in 2020 and a minimum value of 41.19 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 41.19
1961 41.58
1962 42.06
1963 42.65
1964 43.35
1965 44.16
1966 45.03
1967 45.94
1968 46.86
1969 47.75
1970 48.61
1971 49.45
1972 50.27
1973 51.08
1974 51.89
1975 52.69
1976 53.49
1977 54.30
1978 55.10
1979 55.90
1980 56.69
1981 57.50
1982 58.31
1983 59.10
1984 59.86
1985 60.56
1986 61.16
1987 61.65
1988 62.00
1989 62.21
1990 62.29
1991 62.24
1992 62.09
1993 61.88
1994 61.61
1995 61.30
1996 60.94
1997 60.55
1998 60.14
1999 59.73
2000 59.39
2001 59.13
2002 59.00
2003 59.02
2004 59.18
2005 59.51
2006 59.98
2007 60.58
2008 61.26
2009 62.00
2010 62.77
2011 63.58
2012 64.40
2013 65.21
2014 65.99
2015 66.71
2016 67.35
2017 67.88
2018 68.32
2019 68.67
2020 68.93

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