Mongolia - Life expectancy at birth, total (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, total (years) in Mongolia was 70.06 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 70.06 in 2020 and a minimum value of 48.39 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 48.39
1961 49.30
1962 50.19
1963 51.01
1964 51.77
1965 52.46
1966 53.10
1967 53.70
1968 54.29
1969 54.85
1970 55.36
1971 55.82
1972 56.19
1973 56.48
1974 56.68
1975 56.80
1976 56.85
1977 56.86
1978 56.86
1979 56.88
1980 56.94
1981 57.07
1982 57.30
1983 57.60
1984 57.97
1985 58.39
1986 58.84
1987 59.27
1988 59.66
1989 59.99
1990 60.27
1991 60.49
1992 60.67
1993 60.84
1994 61.02
1995 61.21
1996 61.45
1997 61.73
1998 62.06
1999 62.45
2000 62.87
2001 63.32
2002 63.78
2003 64.23
2004 64.67
2005 65.10
2006 65.54
2007 65.99
2008 66.45
2009 66.92
2010 67.38
2011 67.82
2012 68.22
2013 68.57
2014 68.86
2015 69.11
2016 69.32
2017 69.51
2018 69.69
2019 69.87
2020 70.06

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