Liberia - Life expectancy at birth, total (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, total (years) in Liberia was 64.42 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 64.42 in 2020 and a minimum value of 34.26 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 34.26
1961 34.56
1962 34.91
1963 35.32
1964 35.80
1965 36.32
1966 36.90
1967 37.49
1968 38.10
1969 38.71
1970 39.34
1971 39.98
1972 40.65
1973 41.35
1974 42.06
1975 42.79
1976 43.51
1977 44.23
1978 44.90
1979 45.52
1980 46.05
1981 46.47
1982 46.78
1983 46.96
1984 47.04
1985 47.00
1986 46.86
1987 46.65
1988 46.40
1989 46.17
1990 46.05
1991 46.10
1992 46.36
1993 46.83
1994 47.51
1995 48.31
1996 49.16
1997 49.96
1998 50.66
1999 51.23
2000 51.73
2001 52.24
2002 52.83
2003 53.55
2004 54.42
2005 55.39
2006 56.40
2007 57.37
2008 58.23
2009 58.97
2010 59.60
2011 60.15
2012 60.66
2013 61.19
2014 61.72
2015 62.27
2016 62.80
2017 63.30
2018 63.73
2019 64.10
2020 64.42

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