Macao SAR, China - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Macao SAR, China was 87.31 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 87.31 in 2020 and a minimum value of 66.41 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 66.41
1961 66.92
1962 67.41
1963 67.89
1964 68.36
1965 68.83
1966 69.30
1967 69.79
1968 70.28
1969 70.80
1970 71.33
1971 71.86
1972 72.40
1973 72.93
1974 73.45
1975 73.94
1976 74.41
1977 74.85
1978 75.27
1979 75.66
1980 76.03
1981 76.38
1982 76.72
1983 77.06
1984 77.40
1985 77.74
1986 78.09
1987 78.44
1988 78.80
1989 79.16
1990 79.53
1991 79.90
1992 80.26
1993 80.62
1994 80.98
1995 81.32
1996 81.66
1997 81.99
1998 82.31
1999 82.61
2000 82.91
2001 83.19
2002 83.47
2003 83.73
2004 84.00
2005 84.25
2006 84.51
2007 84.78
2008 85.05
2009 85.31
2010 85.57
2011 85.83
2012 86.06
2013 86.27
2014 86.46
2015 86.63
2016 86.78
2017 86.92
2018 87.05
2019 87.18
2020 87.31

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