Botswana - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Botswana was 72.60 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 72.60 in 2020 and a minimum value of 52.08 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 52.08
1961 52.61
1962 53.13
1963 53.64
1964 54.14
1965 54.63
1966 55.12
1967 55.59
1968 56.06
1969 56.53
1970 57.01
1971 57.51
1972 58.03
1973 58.56
1974 59.12
1975 59.69
1976 60.26
1977 60.82
1978 61.37
1979 61.88
1980 62.38
1981 62.87
1982 63.36
1983 63.84
1984 64.26
1985 64.58
1986 64.73
1987 64.67
1988 64.38
1989 63.86
1990 63.13
1991 62.22
1992 61.19
1993 60.12
1994 59.04
1995 57.98
1996 56.92
1997 55.88
1998 54.88
1999 53.97
2000 53.25
2001 52.81
2002 52.68
2003 52.90
2004 53.48
2005 54.42
2006 55.71
2007 57.26
2008 58.97
2009 60.78
2010 62.59
2011 64.35
2012 66.02
2013 67.54
2014 68.89
2015 70.01
2016 70.89
2017 71.56
2018 72.05
2019 72.39
2020 72.60

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