Cambodia - Life expectancy at birth, total (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, total (years) in Cambodia was 70.05 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 70.05 in 2020 and a minimum value of 18.91 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, 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 41.24
1961 41.37
1962 41.53
1963 41.71
1964 41.89
1965 42.08
1966 42.30
1967 42.49
1968 42.55
1969 42.37
1970 41.57
1971 39.70
1972 36.68
1973 32.67
1974 28.04
1975 23.60
1976 20.32
1977 18.91
1978 19.73
1979 22.74
1980 27.54
1981 33.34
1982 39.16
1983 44.17
1984 48.03
1985 50.56
1986 51.92
1987 52.59
1988 53.00
1989 53.30
1990 53.60
1991 53.92
1992 54.23
1993 54.51
1994 54.82
1995 55.19
1996 55.65
1997 56.21
1998 56.86
1999 57.60
2000 58.43
2001 59.34
2002 60.28
2003 61.24
2004 62.19
2005 63.09
2006 63.93
2007 64.70
2008 65.39
2009 66.01
2010 66.56
2011 67.04
2012 67.48
2013 67.89
2014 68.27
2015 68.64
2016 68.98
2017 69.29
2018 69.57
2019 69.82
2020 70.05

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