South Sudan - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in South Sudan was 59.64 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 59.64 in 2020 and a minimum value of 33.14 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 33.14
1961 33.57
1962 34.00
1963 34.42
1964 34.85
1965 35.28
1966 35.70
1967 36.11
1968 36.50
1969 36.88
1970 37.26
1971 37.64
1972 38.03
1973 38.43
1974 38.84
1975 39.23
1976 39.59
1977 39.89
1978 40.13
1979 40.33
1980 40.49
1981 40.66
1982 40.86
1983 41.12
1984 41.45
1985 41.87
1986 42.37
1987 42.96
1988 43.59
1989 44.26
1990 44.96
1991 45.66
1992 46.35
1993 47.02
1994 47.65
1995 48.23
1996 48.75
1997 49.21
1998 49.63
1999 50.02
2000 50.40
2001 50.79
2002 51.21
2003 51.67
2004 52.18
2005 52.75
2006 53.38
2007 54.04
2008 54.72
2009 55.40
2010 56.05
2011 56.65
2012 57.18
2013 57.64
2014 58.03
2015 58.36
2016 58.64
2017 58.89
2018 59.14
2019 59.38
2020 59.64

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