Uganda - Life expectancy at birth, total (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, total (years) in Uganda was 63.71 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 63.71 in 2020 and a minimum value of 43.82 in 1995.

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 44.36
1961 44.96
1962 45.56
1963 46.16
1964 46.76
1965 47.32
1966 47.84
1967 48.30
1968 48.69
1969 49.01
1970 49.25
1971 49.43
1972 49.56
1973 49.65
1974 49.72
1975 49.77
1976 49.83
1977 49.89
1978 49.94
1979 49.99
1980 50.00
1981 49.96
1982 49.83
1983 49.62
1984 49.30
1985 48.89
1986 48.38
1987 47.78
1988 47.15
1989 46.49
1990 45.85
1991 45.25
1992 44.72
1993 44.27
1994 43.96
1995 43.82
1996 43.90
1997 44.19
1998 44.69
1999 45.37
2000 46.23
2001 47.22
2002 48.30
2003 49.42
2004 50.55
2005 51.68
2006 52.78
2007 53.89
2008 54.98
2009 56.06
2010 57.10
2011 58.09
2012 59.02
2013 59.88
2014 60.67
2015 61.37
2016 61.99
2017 62.52
2018 62.97
2019 63.37
2020 63.71

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