Niger - Life expectancy at birth, total (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, total (years) in Niger was 62.79 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 62.79 in 2020 and a minimum value of 35.05 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 35.05
1961 35.14
1962 35.22
1963 35.30
1964 35.37
1965 35.44
1966 35.50
1967 35.57
1968 35.66
1969 35.76
1970 35.88
1971 36.03
1972 36.20
1973 36.40
1974 36.63
1975 36.91
1976 37.23
1977 37.60
1978 38.02
1979 38.48
1980 38.96
1981 39.45
1982 39.93
1983 40.39
1984 40.82
1985 41.24
1986 41.65
1987 42.08
1988 42.53
1989 43.01
1990 43.54
1991 44.10
1992 44.70
1993 45.33
1994 45.98
1995 46.64
1996 47.31
1997 47.97
1998 48.63
1999 49.28
2000 49.93
2001 50.58
2002 51.26
2003 51.95
2004 52.67
2005 53.41
2006 54.18
2007 54.97
2008 55.76
2009 56.56
2010 57.33
2011 58.08
2012 58.79
2013 59.46
2014 60.07
2015 60.63
2016 61.14
2017 61.60
2018 62.02
2019 62.42
2020 62.79

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