Iraq - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Iraq was 72.82 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 72.82 in 2020 and a minimum value of 47.56 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 47.56
1961 48.68
1962 49.82
1963 50.96
1964 52.11
1965 53.25
1966 54.34
1967 55.37
1968 56.32
1969 57.18
1970 57.95
1971 58.62
1972 59.22
1973 59.77
1974 60.29
1975 60.81
1976 61.36
1977 61.95
1978 62.59
1979 63.28
1980 63.99
1981 64.72
1982 65.42
1983 66.07
1984 66.67
1985 67.21
1986 67.70
1987 68.16
1988 68.61
1989 69.05
1990 69.48
1991 69.91
1992 70.33
1993 70.73
1994 71.09
1995 71.39
1996 71.60
1997 71.72
1998 71.74
1999 71.68
2000 71.56
2001 71.41
2002 71.26
2003 71.16
2004 71.11
2005 71.12
2006 71.16
2007 71.23
2008 71.30
2009 71.37
2010 71.44
2011 71.52
2012 71.61
2013 71.72
2014 71.85
2015 71.99
2016 72.15
2017 72.32
2018 72.49
2019 72.65
2020 72.82

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