Eritrea - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Eritrea was 68.92 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 68.92 in 2020 and a minimum value of 39.91 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 39.91
1961 40.59
1962 41.22
1963 41.80
1964 42.31
1965 42.77
1966 43.19
1967 43.59
1968 43.99
1969 44.40
1970 44.82
1971 45.25
1972 45.66
1973 46.06
1974 46.44
1975 46.80
1976 47.14
1977 47.46
1978 47.77
1979 48.06
1980 48.34
1981 48.60
1982 48.85
1983 49.07
1984 49.30
1985 49.53
1986 49.79
1987 50.09
1988 50.43
1989 50.83
1990 51.29
1991 51.79
1992 52.34
1993 52.92
1994 53.52
1995 54.14
1996 54.75
1997 55.36
1998 55.97
1999 56.58
2000 57.20
2001 57.84
2002 58.53
2003 59.25
2004 60.01
2005 60.79
2006 61.56
2007 62.30
2008 63.01
2009 63.66
2010 64.26
2011 64.82
2012 65.35
2013 65.86
2014 66.36
2015 66.84
2016 67.30
2017 67.75
2018 68.16
2019 68.56
2020 68.92

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