Burkina Faso - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Burkina Faso was 62.72 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 62.72 in 2020 and a minimum value of 35.55 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 35.55
1961 36.03
1962 36.50
1963 36.99
1964 37.47
1965 37.96
1966 38.44
1967 38.91
1968 39.37
1969 39.82
1970 40.28
1971 40.74
1972 41.21
1973 41.71
1974 42.24
1975 42.85
1976 43.56
1977 44.38
1978 45.29
1979 46.26
1980 47.23
1981 48.15
1982 48.96
1983 49.62
1984 50.11
1985 50.42
1986 50.57
1987 50.62
1988 50.60
1989 50.56
1990 50.52
1991 50.49
1992 50.50
1993 50.53
1994 50.61
1995 50.73
1996 50.89
1997 51.06
1998 51.25
1999 51.46
2000 51.71
2001 52.02
2002 52.41
2003 52.88
2004 53.42
2005 54.04
2006 54.72
2007 55.44
2008 56.18
2009 56.91
2010 57.62
2011 58.28
2012 58.91
2013 59.49
2014 60.03
2015 60.53
2016 60.99
2017 61.43
2018 61.86
2019 62.29
2020 62.72

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