Cuba - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Cuba was 80.86 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 80.86 in 2020 and a minimum value of 65.62 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 65.62
1961 66.22
1962 66.83
1963 67.45
1964 68.07
1965 68.69
1966 69.30
1967 69.89
1968 70.46
1969 71.01
1970 71.54
1971 72.05
1972 72.54
1973 73.02
1974 73.49
1975 73.94
1976 74.35
1977 74.72
1978 75.05
1979 75.33
1980 75.56
1981 75.76
1982 75.94
1983 76.09
1984 76.22
1985 76.34
1986 76.43
1987 76.49
1988 76.53
1989 76.55
1990 76.58
1991 76.65
1992 76.77
1993 76.94
1994 77.16
1995 77.43
1996 77.72
1997 78.00
1998 78.26
1999 78.49
2000 78.69
2001 78.88
2002 79.06
2003 79.26
2004 79.46
2005 79.66
2006 79.85
2007 80.02
2008 80.16
2009 80.27
2010 80.35
2011 80.40
2012 80.44
2013 80.47
2014 80.50
2015 80.54
2016 80.59
2017 80.64
2018 80.71
2019 80.78
2020 80.86

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