Belize - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Belize was 77.99 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 77.99 in 2020 and a minimum value of 61.33 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 61.33
1961 61.87
1962 62.40
1963 62.95
1964 63.49
1965 64.04
1966 64.59
1967 65.14
1968 65.68
1969 66.21
1970 66.73
1971 67.25
1972 67.77
1973 68.27
1974 68.77
1975 69.26
1976 69.74
1977 70.19
1978 70.63
1979 71.05
1980 71.44
1981 71.82
1982 72.19
1983 72.53
1984 72.85
1985 73.13
1986 73.36
1987 73.53
1988 73.62
1989 73.65
1990 73.58
1991 73.42
1992 73.17
1993 72.86
1994 72.52
1995 72.18
1996 71.90
1997 71.70
1998 71.61
1999 71.64
2000 71.76
2001 71.97
2002 72.20
2003 72.45
2004 72.69
2005 72.94
2006 73.20
2007 73.52
2008 73.88
2009 74.29
2010 74.74
2011 75.22
2012 75.68
2013 76.13
2014 76.54
2015 76.90
2016 77.20
2017 77.45
2018 77.67
2019 77.84
2020 77.99

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