Bulgaria - Life expectancy at birth, total (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, total (years) in Bulgaria was 73.61 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 75.11 in 2019 and a minimum value of 69.25 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, or derived from male and female life expectancy at birth from sources such as: (2) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (3)

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Year Value
1960 69.25
1961 70.20
1962 69.49
1963 70.31
1964 71.12
1965 71.29
1966 71.22
1967 70.41
1968 71.23
1969 70.43
1970 71.26
1971 70.87
1972 70.90
1973 71.34
1974 71.21
1975 71.05
1976 71.39
1977 70.82
1978 71.18
1979 71.31
1980 71.16
1981 71.57
1982 71.19
1983 71.39
1984 71.50
1985 71.23
1986 71.73
1987 71.53
1988 71.60
1989 71.72
1990 71.64
1991 71.56
1992 71.49
1993 71.35
1994 71.21
1995 71.05
1996 70.90
1997 70.35
1998 71.06
1999 71.41
2000 71.66
2001 71.77
2002 71.87
2003 72.07
2004 72.56
2005 72.56
2006 72.61
2007 72.66
2008 72.96
2009 73.41
2010 73.51
2011 74.16
2012 74.31
2013 74.86
2014 74.47
2015 74.61
2016 74.81
2017 74.81
2018 74.96
2019 75.11
2020 73.61

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