Cambodia - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Cambodia was 72.16 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 72.16 in 2020 and a minimum value of 22.39 in 1977.

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 42.93
1961 43.09
1962 43.28
1963 43.50
1964 43.71
1965 43.93
1966 44.20
1967 44.47
1968 44.63
1969 44.58
1970 43.94
1971 42.26
1972 39.46
1973 35.67
1974 31.26
1975 26.99
1976 23.81
1977 22.39
1978 23.11
1979 25.94
1980 30.49
1981 36.04
1982 41.62
1983 46.46
1984 50.21
1985 52.72
1986 54.10
1987 54.82
1988 55.28
1989 55.62
1990 55.92
1991 56.24
1992 56.53
1993 56.80
1994 57.09
1995 57.45
1996 57.90
1997 58.44
1998 59.08
1999 59.81
2000 60.62
2001 61.53
2002 62.48
2003 63.44
2004 64.40
2005 65.31
2006 66.15
2007 66.90
2008 67.57
2009 68.15
2010 68.64
2011 69.07
2012 69.47
2013 69.85
2014 70.23
2015 70.61
2016 70.98
2017 71.32
2018 71.63
2019 71.91
2020 72.16

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