Guatemala - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Guatemala was 77.37 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 77.37 in 2020 and a minimum value of 47.35 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 47.35
1961 47.92
1962 48.50
1963 49.09
1964 49.70
1965 50.33
1966 50.98
1967 51.64
1968 52.31
1969 52.99
1970 53.65
1971 54.30
1972 54.92
1973 55.52
1974 56.08
1975 56.63
1976 57.15
1977 57.66
1978 58.17
1979 58.68
1980 59.21
1981 59.75
1982 60.30
1983 60.88
1984 61.47
1985 62.07
1986 62.68
1987 63.30
1988 63.93
1989 64.55
1990 65.17
1991 65.80
1992 66.42
1993 67.05
1994 67.68
1995 68.30
1996 68.90
1997 69.48
1998 70.04
1999 70.56
2000 71.05
2001 71.49
2002 71.89
2003 72.26
2004 72.61
2005 72.94
2006 73.27
2007 73.60
2008 73.95
2009 74.32
2010 74.68
2011 75.05
2012 75.39
2013 75.71
2014 76.00
2015 76.26
2016 76.50
2017 76.72
2018 76.94
2019 77.15
2020 77.37

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