Belarus - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Belarus was 79.40 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 79.40 in 2020 and a minimum value of 70.52 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 70.52
1961 71.04
1962 71.50
1963 71.91
1964 72.28
1965 72.61
1966 72.90
1967 73.15
1968 73.36
1969 73.53
1970 73.66
1971 73.77
1972 73.86
1973 73.93
1974 73.99
1975 74.05
1976 74.09
1977 74.13
1978 74.16
1979 74.18
1980 74.23
1981 74.33
1982 74.48
1983 74.68
1984 74.92
1985 75.50
1986 75.98
1987 75.60
1988 75.90
1989 76.40
1990 75.60
1991 75.50
1992 75.40
1993 74.40
1994 74.30
1995 74.30
1996 74.30
1997 74.30
1998 74.40
1999 73.90
2000 74.70
2001 74.50
2002 74.10
2003 74.70
2004 75.00
2005 75.10
2006 75.50
2007 76.20
2008 76.50
2009 76.40
2010 76.50
2011 76.70
2012 77.60
2013 77.90
2014 78.40
2015 78.90
2016 79.00
2017 79.20
2018 79.40
2019 79.40
2020 79.40

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