Haiti - Life expectancy at birth, total (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, total (years) in Haiti was 64.32 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 64.32 in 2020 and a minimum value of 41.76 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 41.76
1961 42.18
1962 42.59
1963 43.00
1964 43.41
1965 43.84
1966 44.27
1967 44.70
1968 45.13
1969 45.57
1970 46.03
1971 46.51
1972 47.02
1973 47.56
1974 48.12
1975 48.68
1976 49.23
1977 49.75
1978 50.22
1979 50.64
1980 51.01
1981 51.35
1982 51.67
1983 51.99
1984 52.31
1985 52.64
1986 52.97
1987 53.30
1988 53.63
1989 53.95
1990 54.27
1991 54.58
1992 54.89
1993 55.21
1994 55.52
1995 55.83
1996 56.12
1997 56.39
1998 56.65
1999 56.89
2000 57.13
2001 57.38
2002 57.66
2003 57.96
2004 58.29
2005 58.65
2006 59.03
2007 59.41
2008 59.78
2009 60.15
2010 60.51
2011 60.88
2012 61.26
2013 61.66
2014 62.07
2015 62.49
2016 62.90
2017 63.29
2018 63.66
2019 64.00
2020 64.32

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