Italy - Life expectancy at birth

Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Italy was 84.40 as of 2010. As the graph below shows, over the past 50 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 84.40 in 2010 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, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Reprot (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.

See also:

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 78.84
1986 79.14
1987 79.58
1988 79.74
1989 80.17
1990 80.26
1991 80.32
1992 80.69
1993 80.87
1994 81.12
1995 81.40
1996 81.61
1997 81.84
1998 81.50
1999 81.90
2000 82.50
2001 82.80
2002 83.00
2003 82.80
2004 83.70
2005 83.50
2006 84.00
2007 84.00
2008 84.10
2009 84.10
2010 84.40

Life expectancy at birth, total (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, total (years) in Italy was 81.74 as of 2010. As the graph below shows, over the past 50 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 81.74 in 2010 and a minimum value of 69.12 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: Derived from male and female life expectancy at birth from sources such as: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Reprot (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.

See also:

Year Value
1960 69.12
1961 69.76
1962 69.15
1963 69.25
1964 70.31
1965 70.17
1966 70.93
1967 70.96
1968 70.78
1969 70.81
1970 71.56
1971 71.81
1972 72.08
1973 72.03
1974 72.73
1975 72.65
1976 72.99
1977 73.36
1978 73.69
1979 74.00
1980 73.94
1981 74.35
1982 74.81
1983 74.64
1984 75.39
1985 75.50
1986 75.81
1987 76.23
1988 76.41
1989 76.80
1990 76.86
1991 76.88
1992 77.24
1993 77.51
1994 77.75
1995 78.01
1996 78.33
1997 78.63
1998 78.43
1999 78.83
2000 79.43
2001 79.83
2002 79.98
2003 79.93
2004 80.73
2005 80.58
2006 81.13
2007 81.29
2008 81.39
2009 81.39
2010 81.74

Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Italy was 79.20 as of 2010. As the graph below shows, over the past 50 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 79.20 in 2010 and a minimum value of 66.54 in 1962.

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, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Reprot (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.

See also:

Year Value
1960 66.68
1961 67.17
1962 66.54
1963 66.57
1964 67.58
1965 67.44
1966 68.17
1967 68.22
1968 67.98
1969 67.89
1970 68.71
1971 68.88
1972 69.09
1973 69.08
1974 69.71
1975 69.54
1976 69.87
1977 70.15
1978 70.42
1979 70.71
1980 70.67
1981 71.11
1982 71.60
1983 71.45
1984 72.17
1985 72.31
1986 72.64
1987 73.03
1988 73.23
1989 73.60
1990 73.62
1991 73.60
1992 73.95
1993 74.31
1994 74.54
1995 74.79
1996 75.21
1997 75.57
1998 75.50
1999 75.90
2000 76.50
2001 77.00
2002 77.10
2003 77.20
2004 77.90
2005 77.80
2006 78.40
2007 78.70
2008 78.80
2009 78.80
2010 79.20

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Mortality