Cabo Verde - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Cabo Verde was 76.38 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 76.38 in 2020 and a minimum value of 49.60 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 49.60
1961 49.81
1962 50.11
1963 50.51
1964 51.01
1965 51.58
1966 52.19
1967 52.82
1968 53.43
1969 54.03
1970 54.66
1971 55.36
1972 56.16
1973 57.07
1974 58.08
1975 59.12
1976 60.14
1977 61.06
1978 61.85
1979 62.48
1980 62.97
1981 63.34
1982 63.64
1983 63.94
1984 64.24
1985 64.56
1986 64.89
1987 65.23
1988 65.56
1989 65.88
1990 66.21
1991 66.54
1992 66.88
1993 67.25
1994 67.64
1995 68.09
1996 68.63
1997 69.24
1998 69.94
1999 70.68
2000 71.44
2001 72.15
2002 72.78
2003 73.30
2004 73.70
2005 73.97
2006 74.14
2007 74.26
2008 74.36
2009 74.47
2010 74.59
2011 74.73
2012 74.89
2013 75.06
2014 75.24
2015 75.42
2016 75.62
2017 75.81
2018 76.01
2019 76.20
2020 76.38

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