Georgia - Life expectancy at birth, total (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, total (years) in Georgia was 73.92 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 73.92 in 2020 and a minimum value of 63.65 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 63.65
1961 64.06
1962 64.47
1963 64.88
1964 65.29
1965 65.69
1966 66.08
1967 66.46
1968 66.81
1969 67.14
1970 67.45
1971 67.77
1972 68.08
1973 68.40
1974 68.72
1975 69.01
1976 69.27
1977 69.46
1978 69.59
1979 69.67
1980 69.70
1981 69.73
1982 69.77
1983 69.84
1984 69.95
1985 70.09
1986 70.23
1987 70.34
1988 70.41
1989 70.43
1990 70.39
1991 70.29
1992 70.16
1993 70.00
1994 69.85
1995 69.72
1996 69.64
1997 69.61
1998 69.65
1999 69.76
2000 69.90
2001 70.07
2002 70.22
2003 70.35
2004 70.45
2005 70.54
2006 70.64
2007 70.77
2008 70.95
2009 71.18
2010 71.46
2011 71.77
2012 72.10
2013 72.41
2014 72.71
2015 72.97
2016 73.21
2017 73.41
2018 73.60
2019 73.77
2020 73.92

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