Fiji - Life expectancy at birth, total (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, total (years) in Fiji was 67.56 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 67.56 in 2020 and a minimum value of 60.81 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, or derived from male and female life expectancy at birth from sources such as: (2) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (3)

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Year Value
1960 60.81
1961 61.17
1962 61.48
1963 61.74
1964 61.97
1965 62.16
1966 62.30
1967 62.40
1968 62.46
1969 62.48
1970 62.49
1971 62.51
1972 62.56
1973 62.63
1974 62.75
1975 62.91
1976 63.11
1977 63.33
1978 63.55
1979 63.78
1980 64.00
1981 64.22
1982 64.44
1983 64.65
1984 64.86
1985 65.04
1986 65.19
1987 65.30
1988 65.37
1989 65.39
1990 65.38
1991 65.34
1992 65.28
1993 65.22
1994 65.17
1995 65.15
1996 65.18
1997 65.25
1998 65.36
1999 65.51
2000 65.69
2001 65.86
2002 66.02
2003 66.15
2004 66.25
2005 66.31
2006 66.36
2007 66.41
2008 66.48
2009 66.56
2010 66.66
2011 66.76
2012 66.86
2013 66.95
2014 67.03
2015 67.10
2016 67.18
2017 67.25
2018 67.34
2019 67.44
2020 67.56

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