Algeria - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Algeria was 78.32 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 78.32 in 2020 and a minimum value of 46.87 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 46.87
1961 47.33
1962 47.80
1963 48.27
1964 48.72
1965 49.17
1966 49.60
1967 50.01
1968 50.40
1969 50.80
1970 51.20
1971 51.61
1972 52.04
1973 52.52
1974 53.07
1975 53.73
1976 54.55
1977 55.55
1978 56.72
1979 58.01
1980 59.40
1981 60.81
1982 62.19
1983 63.46
1984 64.60
1985 65.57
1986 66.37
1987 67.03
1988 67.59
1989 68.07
1990 68.47
1991 68.83
1992 69.15
1993 69.45
1994 69.76
1995 70.09
1996 70.44
1997 70.82
1998 71.22
1999 71.64
2000 72.08
2001 72.54
2002 73.02
2003 73.49
2004 73.96
2005 74.41
2006 74.83
2007 75.22
2008 75.56
2009 75.88
2010 76.15
2011 76.40
2012 76.64
2013 76.86
2014 77.09
2015 77.31
2016 77.52
2017 77.74
2018 77.94
2019 78.13
2020 78.32

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