Eswatini - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Eswatini was 65.41 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 65.41 in 2020 and a minimum value of 44.60 in 2005.

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 45.69
1961 46.05
1962 46.40
1963 46.76
1964 47.13
1965 47.51
1966 47.94
1967 48.40
1968 48.92
1969 49.48
1970 50.09
1971 50.73
1972 51.41
1973 52.11
1974 52.82
1975 53.55
1976 54.29
1977 55.05
1978 55.83
1979 56.63
1980 57.44
1981 58.27
1982 59.11
1983 59.95
1984 60.77
1985 61.53
1986 62.23
1987 62.84
1988 63.33
1989 63.65
1990 63.77
1991 63.63
1992 63.23
1993 62.57
1994 61.64
1995 60.41
1996 58.85
1997 57.00
1998 54.95
1999 52.80
2000 50.68
2001 48.73
2002 47.06
2003 45.77
2004 44.93
2005 44.60
2006 44.78
2007 45.40
2008 46.37
2009 47.65
2010 49.19
2011 51.00
2012 53.01
2013 55.15
2014 57.32
2015 59.38
2016 61.21
2017 62.75
2018 63.97
2019 64.85
2020 65.41

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