Barbados - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Barbados was 80.58 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 80.58 in 2020 and a minimum value of 66.66 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 66.66
1961 67.36
1962 67.97
1963 68.51
1964 69.00
1965 69.43
1966 69.81
1967 70.14
1968 70.43
1969 70.70
1970 70.97
1971 71.25
1972 71.55
1973 71.88
1974 72.24
1975 72.62
1976 73.01
1977 73.40
1978 73.78
1979 74.13
1980 74.44
1981 74.73
1982 74.99
1983 75.23
1984 75.45
1985 75.66
1986 75.86
1987 76.05
1988 76.24
1989 76.44
1990 76.64
1991 76.85
1992 77.08
1993 77.33
1994 77.58
1995 77.83
1996 78.09
1997 78.33
1998 78.56
1999 78.76
2000 78.94
2001 79.09
2002 79.22
2003 79.33
2004 79.43
2005 79.50
2006 79.57
2007 79.64
2008 79.70
2009 79.76
2010 79.82
2011 79.88
2012 79.95
2013 80.01
2014 80.08
2015 80.15
2016 80.23
2017 80.31
2018 80.39
2019 80.48
2020 80.58

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