Pakistan - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Pakistan was 68.46 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 68.46 in 2020 and a minimum value of 45.46 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 45.46
1961 46.35
1962 47.20
1963 48.02
1964 48.80
1965 49.54
1966 50.24
1967 50.90
1968 51.53
1969 52.13
1970 52.69
1971 53.24
1972 53.75
1973 54.25
1974 54.74
1975 55.20
1976 55.66
1977 56.10
1978 56.52
1979 56.94
1980 57.34
1981 57.73
1982 58.12
1983 58.50
1984 58.87
1985 59.23
1986 59.58
1987 59.92
1988 60.24
1989 60.56
1990 60.86
1991 61.15
1992 61.43
1993 61.71
1994 61.99
1995 62.27
1996 62.56
1997 62.84
1998 63.13
1999 63.41
2000 63.68
2001 63.95
2002 64.20
2003 64.44
2004 64.66
2005 64.89
2006 65.12
2007 65.37
2008 65.64
2009 65.93
2010 66.23
2011 66.53
2012 66.81
2013 67.08
2014 67.32
2015 67.54
2016 67.74
2017 67.93
2018 68.11
2019 68.29
2020 68.46

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