Lithuania - Life expectancy at birth, total (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, total (years) in Lithuania was 74.93 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 76.28 in 2019 and a minimum value of 68.53 in 1994.

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 69.85
1961 70.10
1962 69.10
1963 70.20
1964 71.51
1965 71.33
1966 71.52
1967 71.60
1968 71.31
1969 70.93
1970 70.80
1971 71.74
1972 71.02
1973 71.33
1974 71.24
1975 70.87
1976 70.96
1977 70.81
1978 70.60
1979 70.48
1980 70.48
1981 70.46
1982 70.84
1983 70.78
1984 70.32
1985 70.50
1986 72.08
1987 71.93
1988 71.76
1989 71.43
1990 71.16
1991 70.36
1992 70.23
1993 68.91
1994 68.53
1995 69.01
1996 70.11
1997 70.91
1998 71.22
1999 71.57
2000 72.02
2001 71.66
2002 71.76
2003 72.06
2004 71.96
2005 71.25
2006 71.06
2007 70.90
2008 71.81
2009 72.91
2010 73.27
2011 73.56
2012 73.86
2013 73.91
2014 74.52
2015 74.32
2016 74.67
2017 75.48
2018 75.68
2019 76.28
2020 74.93

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