High income - Life expectancy at birth

Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in High income was 83.09 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 83.65 in 2019 and a minimum value of 71.51 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 71.51
1961 71.92
1962 71.93
1963 72.20
1964 72.64
1965 72.77
1966 73.07
1967 73.34
1968 73.40
1969 73.58
1970 73.89
1971 74.20
1972 74.49
1973 74.65
1974 75.05
1975 75.42
1976 75.69
1977 76.10
1978 76.29
1979 76.67
1980 76.68
1981 77.04
1982 77.36
1983 77.45
1984 77.74
1985 77.85
1986 78.08
1987 78.35
1988 78.45
1989 78.71
1990 78.91
1991 79.09
1992 79.35
1993 79.37
1994 79.66
1995 79.68
1996 79.97
1997 80.26
1998 80.40
1999 80.47
2000 80.70
2001 80.97
2002 81.09
2003 81.17
2004 81.58
2005 81.66
2006 81.96
2007 82.17
2008 82.28
2009 82.53
2010 82.68
2011 82.91
2012 82.97
2013 83.12
2014 83.37
2015 83.21
2016 83.36
2017 83.36
2018 83.46
2019 83.65
2020 83.09

Life expectancy at birth, total (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, total (years) in High income was 80.31 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 80.98 in 2019 and a minimum value of 68.55 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 68.55
1961 68.94
1962 68.91
1963 69.11
1964 69.51
1965 69.62
1966 69.88
1967 70.10
1968 70.04
1969 70.24
1970 70.56
1971 70.84
1972 71.14
1973 71.31
1974 71.72
1975 72.07
1976 72.33
1977 72.68
1978 72.84
1979 73.16
1980 73.19
1981 73.55
1982 73.88
1983 73.98
1984 74.26
1985 74.38
1986 74.63
1987 74.90
1988 75.02
1989 75.27
1990 75.43
1991 75.60
1992 75.86
1993 75.94
1994 76.22
1995 76.29
1996 76.66
1997 76.99
1998 77.17
1999 77.32
2000 77.59
2001 77.90
2002 78.03
2003 78.16
2004 78.57
2005 78.67
2006 78.98
2007 79.22
2008 79.37
2009 79.65
2010 79.83
2011 80.07
2012 80.19
2013 80.36
2014 80.62
2015 80.50
2016 80.64
2017 80.68
2018 80.78
2019 80.98
2020 80.31

Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in High income was 77.71 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 78.48 in 2019 and a minimum value of 65.74 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

See also:

Year Value
1960 65.74
1961 66.09
1962 66.03
1963 66.17
1964 66.53
1965 66.61
1966 66.83
1967 67.02
1968 66.85
1969 67.06
1970 67.39
1971 67.66
1972 67.95
1973 68.13
1974 68.56
1975 68.88
1976 69.14
1977 69.44
1978 69.56
1979 69.84
1980 69.88
1981 70.23
1982 70.57
1983 70.68
1984 70.95
1985 71.10
1986 71.37
1987 71.64
1988 71.77
1989 72.01
1990 72.13
1991 72.30
1992 72.56
1993 72.69
1994 72.96
1995 73.07
1996 73.52
1997 73.90
1998 74.12
1999 74.34
2000 74.65
2001 74.99
2002 75.14
2003 75.32
2004 75.74
2005 75.86
2006 76.18
2007 76.44
2008 76.63
2009 76.94
2010 77.15
2011 77.40
2012 77.57
2013 77.78
2014 78.05
2015 77.96
2016 78.10
2017 78.18
2018 78.28
2019 78.48
2020 77.71

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Mortality