Nepal - Life expectancy at birth, total (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, total (years) in Nepal was 71.07 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 71.07 in 2020 and a minimum value of 35.58 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 35.58
1961 35.94
1962 36.36
1963 36.83
1964 37.35
1965 37.90
1966 38.49
1967 39.09
1968 39.69
1969 40.29
1970 40.88
1971 41.46
1972 42.02
1973 42.59
1974 43.15
1975 43.72
1976 44.29
1977 44.89
1978 45.49
1979 46.12
1980 46.78
1981 47.45
1982 48.14
1983 48.85
1984 49.58
1985 50.32
1986 51.10
1987 51.89
1988 52.71
1989 53.55
1990 54.40
1991 55.26
1992 56.12
1993 56.96
1994 57.79
1995 58.60
1996 59.38
1997 60.14
1998 60.88
1999 61.60
2000 62.29
2001 62.95
2002 63.57
2003 64.17
2004 64.73
2005 65.26
2006 65.77
2007 66.26
2008 66.73
2009 67.18
2010 67.61
2011 68.03
2012 68.43
2013 68.81
2014 69.17
2015 69.52
2016 69.85
2017 70.17
2018 70.48
2019 70.78
2020 71.07

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