Greenland - Life expectancy at birth

Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Greenland was 73.31 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 42 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 74.74 in 2017 and a minimum value of 66.24 in 1983.

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
1978 67.00
1979 67.74
1980 67.24
1981 66.86
1982 66.44
1983 66.24
1984 66.55
1985 67.25
1986 67.66
1987 68.47
1988 68.68
1989 68.76
1990 68.92
1991 68.53
1992 68.51
1993 68.51
1994 68.59
1995 67.99
1996 68.40
1997 68.61
1998 69.01
1999 69.13
2000 69.06
2001 69.26
2002 69.45
2003 70.43
2004 71.42
2005 71.48
2006 71.33
2007 71.78
2008 72.32
2009 72.76
2010 72.73
2011 72.41
2012 72.86
2013 73.95
2014 74.06
2015 73.77
2016 74.55
2017 74.74
2018 74.13
2019 74.04
2020 73.31

Life expectancy at birth, total (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, total (years) in Greenland was 71.40 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 42 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 72.05 in 2019 and a minimum value of 63.07 in 1981.

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
1978 63.41
1979 63.95
1980 63.45
1981 63.07
1982 63.19
1983 63.30
1984 63.47
1985 63.83
1986 64.25
1987 64.65
1988 64.58
1989 64.67
1990 65.07
1991 65.03
1992 65.20
1993 65.59
1994 65.90
1995 65.64
1996 65.77
1997 65.80
1998 66.16
1999 66.36
2000 66.22
2001 66.71
2002 67.20
2003 68.11
2004 68.59
2005 68.43
2006 68.67
2007 69.37
2008 70.02
2009 70.53
2010 70.29
2011 69.85
2012 70.55
2013 71.57
2014 71.99
2015 71.98
2016 71.83
2017 71.58
2018 71.89
2019 72.05
2020 71.40

Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Greenland was 69.59 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 42 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 70.27 in 2015 and a minimum value of 59.47 in 1981.

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

See also:

Year Value
1978 60.00
1979 60.35
1980 59.84
1981 59.47
1982 60.10
1983 60.50
1984 60.53
1985 60.58
1986 61.00
1987 61.02
1988 60.68
1989 60.77
1990 61.40
1991 61.70
1992 62.04
1993 62.80
1994 63.34
1995 63.41
1996 63.26
1997 63.12
1998 63.44
1999 63.72
2000 63.52
2001 64.28
2002 65.05
2003 65.91
2004 65.90
2005 65.52
2006 66.13
2007 67.08
2008 67.82
2009 68.41
2010 67.97
2011 67.42
2012 68.35
2013 69.31
2014 70.01
2015 70.27
2016 69.23
2017 68.57
2018 69.75
2019 70.15
2020 69.59

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Mortality