Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) was 65.60 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 65.60 in 2020 and a minimum value of 41.01 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 41.01
1961 41.46
1962 41.90
1963 42.32
1964 42.73
1965 43.13
1966 43.53
1967 43.92
1968 44.32
1969 44.73
1970 45.14
1971 45.56
1972 45.98
1973 46.39
1974 46.80
1975 47.19
1976 47.57
1977 47.94
1978 48.29
1979 48.63
1980 48.97
1981 49.31
1982 49.65
1983 49.99
1984 50.33
1985 50.65
1986 50.92
1987 51.14
1988 51.31
1989 51.42
1990 51.52
1991 51.62
1992 51.74
1993 51.90
1994 52.09
1995 52.29
1996 52.52
1997 52.78
1998 53.09
1999 53.43
2000 53.83
2001 54.30
2002 54.83
2003 55.41
2004 56.05
2005 56.74
2006 57.46
2007 58.20
2008 58.96
2009 59.70
2010 60.43
2011 61.12
2012 61.79
2013 62.42
2014 63.01
2015 63.55
2016 64.04
2017 64.49
2018 64.89
2019 65.26
2020 65.60

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