Iran - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Iran was 78.09 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 78.09 in 2020 and a minimum value of 44.15 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 44.15
1961 44.82
1962 45.49
1963 46.15
1964 46.82
1965 47.49
1966 48.16
1967 48.84
1968 49.53
1969 50.22
1970 50.94
1971 51.69
1972 52.48
1973 53.29
1974 54.13
1975 55.00
1976 55.88
1977 56.76
1978 57.63
1979 58.49
1980 59.33
1981 60.14
1982 60.93
1983 61.70
1984 62.44
1985 63.16
1986 63.84
1987 64.49
1988 65.11
1989 65.70
1990 66.26
1991 66.79
1992 67.30
1993 67.79
1994 68.27
1995 68.75
1996 69.22
1997 69.69
1998 70.17
1999 70.65
2000 71.13
2001 71.62
2002 72.10
2003 72.58
2004 73.05
2005 73.50
2006 73.93
2007 74.34
2008 74.73
2009 75.09
2010 75.43
2011 75.75
2012 76.06
2013 76.36
2014 76.65
2015 76.92
2016 77.19
2017 77.44
2018 77.67
2019 77.89
2020 78.09

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