Yemen - Life expectancy at birth, total (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, total (years) in Yemen was 66.18 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 66.18 in 2020 and a minimum value of 29.92 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 29.92
1961 30.16
1962 30.50
1963 30.94
1964 31.50
1965 32.18
1966 32.96
1967 33.84
1968 34.78
1969 35.78
1970 36.82
1971 37.89
1972 38.98
1973 40.09
1974 41.22
1975 42.36
1976 43.54
1977 44.75
1978 46.00
1979 47.27
1980 48.53
1981 49.78
1982 50.98
1983 52.12
1984 53.17
1985 54.12
1986 54.96
1987 55.69
1988 56.33
1989 56.88
1990 57.35
1991 57.73
1992 58.05
1993 58.32
1994 58.57
1995 58.82
1996 59.10
1997 59.42
1998 59.78
1999 60.20
2000 60.68
2001 61.22
2002 61.78
2003 62.36
2004 62.93
2005 63.48
2006 64.00
2007 64.47
2008 64.89
2009 65.26
2010 65.55
2011 65.77
2012 65.92
2013 66.02
2014 66.07
2015 66.09
2016 66.09
2017 66.09
2018 66.10
2019 66.13
2020 66.18

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