Haiti - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Haiti was 66.51 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 66.51 in 2020 and a minimum value of 43.26 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 43.26
1961 43.74
1962 44.20
1963 44.64
1964 45.07
1965 45.48
1966 45.88
1967 46.26
1968 46.63
1969 46.99
1970 47.38
1971 47.81
1972 48.29
1973 48.83
1974 49.41
1975 50.02
1976 50.63
1977 51.19
1978 51.70
1979 52.14
1980 52.53
1981 52.87
1982 53.19
1983 53.52
1984 53.86
1985 54.22
1986 54.58
1987 54.95
1988 55.31
1989 55.66
1990 56.01
1991 56.35
1992 56.69
1993 57.03
1994 57.37
1995 57.70
1996 58.02
1997 58.31
1998 58.57
1999 58.82
2000 59.06
2001 59.31
2002 59.58
2003 59.87
2004 60.20
2005 60.56
2006 60.95
2007 61.34
2008 61.74
2009 62.13
2010 62.53
2011 62.93
2012 63.35
2013 63.77
2014 64.20
2015 64.63
2016 65.05
2017 65.45
2018 65.83
2019 66.18
2020 66.51

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