Turkmenistan - Life expectancy at birth, total (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, total (years) in Turkmenistan was 68.31 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 68.31 in 2020 and a minimum value of 54.47 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 54.47
1961 54.90
1962 55.33
1963 55.76
1964 56.19
1965 56.61
1966 57.02
1967 57.42
1968 57.79
1969 58.15
1970 58.47
1971 58.77
1972 59.03
1973 59.27
1974 59.49
1975 59.70
1976 59.93
1977 60.16
1978 60.42
1979 60.70
1980 61.00
1981 61.31
1982 61.62
1983 61.92
1984 62.19
1985 62.43
1986 62.61
1987 62.73
1988 62.80
1989 62.82
1990 62.81
1991 62.78
1992 62.76
1993 62.76
1994 62.79
1995 62.85
1996 62.95
1997 63.08
1998 63.24
1999 63.41
2000 63.61
2001 63.84
2002 64.10
2003 64.39
2004 64.69
2005 65.02
2006 65.35
2007 65.70
2008 66.03
2009 66.36
2010 66.66
2011 66.93
2012 67.17
2013 67.38
2014 67.55
2015 67.70
2016 67.84
2017 67.96
2018 68.07
2019 68.19
2020 68.31

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