Liberia - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Liberia was 65.83 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 65.83 in 2020 and a minimum value of 37.17 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 37.17
1961 37.40
1962 37.67
1963 38.00
1964 38.38
1965 38.82
1966 39.30
1967 39.81
1968 40.35
1969 40.90
1970 41.47
1971 42.07
1972 42.70
1973 43.37
1974 44.06
1975 44.76
1976 45.46
1977 46.15
1978 46.80
1979 47.40
1980 47.91
1981 48.31
1982 48.60
1983 48.78
1984 48.85
1985 48.81
1986 48.67
1987 48.46
1988 48.22
1989 47.99
1990 47.85
1991 47.87
1992 48.08
1993 48.48
1994 49.07
1995 49.78
1996 50.52
1997 51.22
1998 51.82
1999 52.33
2000 52.79
2001 53.29
2002 53.92
2003 54.73
2004 55.70
2005 56.79
2006 57.90
2007 58.96
2008 59.88
2009 60.64
2010 61.26
2011 61.76
2012 62.22
2013 62.69
2014 63.18
2015 63.69
2016 64.20
2017 64.68
2018 65.11
2019 65.50
2020 65.83

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