Ethiopia - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Ethiopia was 68.91 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 68.91 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 40.60
1962 41.25
1963 41.84
1964 42.37
1965 42.83
1966 43.23
1967 43.59
1968 43.91
1969 44.21
1970 44.49
1971 44.76
1972 45.01
1973 45.24
1974 45.44
1975 45.59
1976 45.66
1977 45.64
1978 45.55
1979 45.40
1980 45.26
1981 45.18
1982 45.20
1983 45.37
1984 45.69
1985 46.13
1986 46.65
1987 47.19
1988 47.72
1989 48.21
1990 48.65
1991 49.07
1992 49.48
1993 49.91
1994 50.38
1995 50.86
1996 51.35
1997 51.83
1998 52.31
1999 52.81
2000 53.35
2001 53.98
2002 54.72
2003 55.58
2004 56.56
2005 57.64
2006 58.80
2007 59.98
2008 61.16
2009 62.28
2010 63.32
2011 64.24
2012 65.07
2013 65.78
2014 66.40
2015 66.93
2016 67.38
2017 67.78
2018 68.17
2019 68.54
2020 68.91

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