Indonesia - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Indonesia was 74.17 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 74.17 in 2020 and a minimum value of 49.01 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 49.01
1961 49.60
1962 50.19
1963 50.75
1964 51.31
1965 51.85
1966 52.39
1967 52.93
1968 53.46
1969 54.00
1970 54.54
1971 55.07
1972 55.60
1973 56.12
1974 56.64
1975 57.15
1976 57.65
1977 58.14
1978 58.64
1979 59.13
1980 59.61
1981 60.07
1982 60.52
1983 60.95
1984 61.36
1985 61.76
1986 62.15
1987 62.54
1988 62.93
1989 63.33
1990 63.73
1991 64.13
1992 64.52
1993 64.90
1994 65.27
1995 65.63
1996 65.96
1997 66.28
1998 66.58
1999 66.88
2000 67.19
2001 67.51
2002 67.86
2003 68.25
2004 68.67
2005 69.11
2006 69.57
2007 70.03
2008 70.47
2009 70.91
2010 71.31
2011 71.69
2012 72.05
2013 72.38
2014 72.70
2015 72.99
2016 73.26
2017 73.52
2018 73.75
2019 73.97
2020 74.17

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