Comoros - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Comoros was 66.34 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 66.34 in 2020 and a minimum value of 43.00 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 43.00
1961 43.39
1962 43.78
1963 44.17
1964 44.56
1965 44.96
1966 45.37
1967 45.82
1968 46.29
1969 46.78
1970 47.28
1971 47.78
1972 48.27
1973 48.73
1974 49.19
1975 49.63
1976 50.09
1977 50.58
1978 51.10
1979 51.67
1980 52.28
1981 52.91
1982 53.56
1983 54.20
1984 54.83
1985 55.45
1986 56.05
1987 56.63
1988 57.20
1989 57.75
1990 58.27
1991 58.75
1992 59.20
1993 59.61
1994 59.98
1995 60.29
1996 60.54
1997 60.73
1998 60.87
1999 60.98
2000 61.06
2001 61.14
2002 61.24
2003 61.37
2004 61.54
2005 61.76
2006 62.04
2007 62.36
2008 62.72
2009 63.11
2010 63.50
2011 63.89
2012 64.26
2013 64.61
2014 64.92
2015 65.20
2016 65.44
2017 65.68
2018 65.90
2019 66.12
2020 66.34

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