Italy - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Italy was 84.70 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 85.70 in 2019 and a minimum value of 71.69 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 71.69
1961 72.48
1962 71.89
1963 72.06
1964 73.18
1965 73.04
1966 73.82
1967 73.83
1968 73.72
1969 73.88
1970 74.55
1971 74.88
1972 75.21
1973 75.12
1974 75.91
1975 75.91
1976 76.27
1977 76.74
1978 77.13
1979 77.46
1980 77.38
1981 77.76
1982 78.19
1983 77.99
1984 78.77
1985 78.80
1986 79.10
1987 79.60
1988 79.70
1989 80.20
1990 80.30
1991 80.40
1992 80.80
1993 81.00
1994 81.20
1995 81.50
1996 81.80
1997 82.00
1998 82.10
1999 82.60
2000 82.80
2001 83.20
2002 83.20
2003 82.80
2004 83.70
2005 83.60
2006 84.10
2007 84.20
2008 84.20
2009 84.30
2010 84.70
2011 84.80
2012 84.80
2013 85.20
2014 85.60
2015 84.90
2016 85.60
2017 85.20
2018 85.60
2019 85.70
2020 84.70

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