Timor-Leste - Life expectancy at birth, total (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, total (years) in Timor-Leste was 69.71 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 69.71 in 2020 and a minimum value of 32.63 in 1978.

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 33.73
1961 34.23
1962 34.73
1963 35.23
1964 35.73
1965 36.27
1966 36.90
1967 37.60
1968 38.34
1969 39.04
1970 39.53
1971 39.57
1972 39.09
1973 38.08
1974 36.66
1975 35.09
1976 33.71
1977 32.83
1978 32.63
1979 33.18
1980 34.42
1981 36.19
1982 38.18
1983 40.13
1984 41.93
1985 43.48
1986 44.76
1987 45.83
1988 46.79
1989 47.66
1990 48.49
1991 49.35
1992 50.26
1993 51.27
1994 52.37
1995 53.54
1996 54.74
1997 55.91
1998 57.01
1999 58.04
2000 59.00
2001 59.95
2002 60.90
2003 61.89
2004 62.89
2005 63.88
2006 64.80
2007 65.61
2008 66.28
2009 66.80
2010 67.19
2011 67.48
2012 67.72
2013 67.95
2014 68.20
2015 68.46
2016 68.74
2017 69.01
2018 69.26
2019 69.50
2020 69.71

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