Namibia - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Namibia was 66.85 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 66.85 in 2020 and a minimum value of 48.82 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 48.82
1961 49.54
1962 50.23
1963 50.89
1964 51.53
1965 52.13
1966 52.71
1967 53.28
1968 53.83
1969 54.39
1970 54.96
1971 55.56
1972 56.18
1973 56.82
1974 57.46
1975 58.10
1976 58.69
1977 59.22
1978 59.69
1979 60.09
1980 60.44
1981 60.79
1982 61.16
1983 61.57
1984 62.01
1985 62.49
1986 63.00
1987 63.51
1988 63.96
1989 64.32
1990 64.50
1991 64.41
1992 64.03
1993 63.36
1994 62.42
1995 61.23
1996 59.86
1997 58.38
1998 56.92
1999 55.56
2000 54.37
2001 53.43
2002 52.73
2003 52.30
2004 52.17
2005 52.41
2006 53.05
2007 54.06
2008 55.39
2009 56.94
2010 58.60
2011 60.24
2012 61.75
2013 63.05
2014 64.09
2015 64.87
2016 65.41
2017 65.82
2018 66.18
2019 66.52
2020 66.85

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