Bangladesh - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Bangladesh was 74.89 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 74.89 in 2020 and a minimum value of 44.63 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 44.63
1961 45.22
1962 45.80
1963 46.38
1964 46.91
1965 47.31
1966 47.50
1967 47.44
1968 47.14
1969 46.67
1970 46.16
1971 45.80
1972 45.72
1973 46.00
1974 46.65
1975 47.60
1976 48.74
1977 49.88
1978 50.90
1979 51.75
1980 52.41
1981 52.92
1982 53.37
1983 53.84
1984 54.35
1985 54.92
1986 55.53
1987 56.18
1988 56.84
1989 57.51
1990 58.21
1991 58.95
1992 59.74
1993 60.56
1994 61.41
1995 62.27
1996 63.11
1997 63.92
1998 64.67
1999 65.36
2000 65.99
2001 66.57
2002 67.13
2003 67.66
2004 68.19
2005 68.72
2006 69.24
2007 69.76
2008 70.27
2009 70.77
2010 71.26
2011 71.72
2012 72.16
2013 72.57
2014 72.96
2015 73.32
2016 73.66
2017 73.98
2018 74.29
2019 74.60
2020 74.89

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