Kiribati - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Kiribati was 72.57 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 72.57 in 2020 and a minimum value of 48.64 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 48.64
1961 49.13
1962 49.63
1963 50.15
1964 50.68
1965 51.22
1966 51.76
1967 52.30
1968 52.82
1969 53.32
1970 53.80
1971 54.26
1972 54.71
1973 55.15
1974 55.58
1975 56.00
1976 56.40
1977 56.78
1978 57.15
1979 57.51
1980 57.87
1981 58.23
1982 58.61
1983 59.00
1984 59.41
1985 59.84
1986 60.29
1987 60.75
1988 61.21
1989 61.67
1990 62.12
1991 62.55
1992 62.98
1993 63.39
1994 63.78
1995 64.16
1996 64.53
1997 64.89
1998 65.25
1999 65.61
2000 65.96
2001 66.31
2002 66.66
2003 67.00
2004 67.35
2005 67.70
2006 68.06
2007 68.44
2008 68.84
2009 69.25
2010 69.65
2011 70.05
2012 70.43
2013 70.78
2014 71.09
2015 71.38
2016 71.64
2017 71.88
2018 72.11
2019 72.34
2020 72.57

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