Japan - Life expectancy at birth

Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Japan was 87.74 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 87.74 in 2020 and a minimum value of 70.14 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 70.14
1961 70.83
1962 71.12
1963 72.26
1964 72.76
1965 72.85
1966 73.65
1967 73.94
1968 74.29
1969 74.62
1970 74.67
1971 75.49
1972 75.96
1973 75.96
1974 76.33
1975 76.85
1976 77.27
1977 77.86
1978 78.21
1979 78.75
1980 78.75
1981 79.17
1982 79.74
1983 79.84
1984 80.29
1985 80.57
1986 81.02
1987 81.48
1988 81.37
1989 81.84
1990 81.91
1991 82.22
1992 82.35
1993 82.50
1994 82.96
1995 82.84
1996 83.55
1997 83.82
1998 84.01
1999 83.90
2000 84.60
2001 84.90
2002 85.20
2003 85.33
2004 85.59
2005 85.49
2006 85.81
2007 85.99
2008 86.05
2009 86.44
2010 86.30
2011 85.90
2012 86.41
2013 86.61
2014 86.83
2015 86.99
2016 87.14
2017 87.26
2018 87.32
2019 87.45
2020 87.74

Life expectancy at birth, total (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, total (years) in Japan was 84.62 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 84.62 in 2020 and a minimum value of 67.67 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, or derived from male and female life expectancy at birth from sources such as: (2) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (3)

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Year Value
1960 67.67
1961 68.31
1962 68.59
1963 69.66
1964 70.13
1965 70.20
1966 70.99
1967 71.28
1968 71.61
1969 71.84
1970 71.95
1971 72.88
1972 73.51
1973 73.76
1974 74.39
1975 75.06
1976 75.46
1977 75.90
1978 76.04
1979 76.34
1980 76.09
1981 76.41
1982 76.92
1983 76.96
1984 77.37
1985 77.65
1986 78.06
1987 78.48
1988 78.40
1989 78.82
1990 78.84
1991 79.10
1992 79.15
1993 79.29
1994 79.69
1995 79.54
1996 80.20
1997 80.42
1998 80.50
1999 80.57
2000 81.08
2001 81.42
2002 81.56
2003 81.76
2004 82.03
2005 81.93
2006 82.32
2007 82.51
2008 82.59
2009 82.93
2010 82.84
2011 82.59
2012 83.10
2013 83.33
2014 83.59
2015 83.79
2016 83.98
2017 84.10
2018 84.21
2019 84.36
2020 84.62

Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Japan was 81.64 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 81.64 in 2020 and a minimum value of 65.31 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 65.31
1961 65.91
1962 66.19
1963 67.18
1964 67.63
1965 67.68
1966 68.45
1967 68.74
1968 69.06
1969 69.19
1970 69.36
1971 70.40
1972 71.17
1973 71.66
1974 72.55
1975 73.35
1976 73.73
1977 74.03
1978 73.97
1979 74.04
1980 73.56
1981 73.79
1982 74.24
1983 74.22
1984 74.58
1985 74.87
1986 75.25
1987 75.63
1988 75.57
1989 75.94
1990 75.91
1991 76.13
1992 76.11
1993 76.24
1994 76.57
1995 76.39
1996 77.01
1997 77.19
1998 77.16
1999 77.40
2000 77.72
2001 78.10
2002 78.10
2003 78.36
2004 78.64
2005 78.53
2006 79.00
2007 79.19
2008 79.29
2009 79.59
2010 79.55
2011 79.44
2012 79.94
2013 80.21
2014 80.50
2015 80.75
2016 80.98
2017 81.09
2018 81.25
2019 81.41
2020 81.64

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Mortality