Maldives - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Maldives was 81.04 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 81.04 in 2020 and a minimum value of 37.41 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 37.41
1961 37.95
1962 38.52
1963 39.12
1964 39.75
1965 40.39
1966 41.04
1967 41.71
1968 42.39
1969 43.09
1970 43.80
1971 44.52
1972 45.26
1973 46.02
1974 46.81
1975 47.61
1976 48.45
1977 49.33
1978 50.22
1979 51.14
1980 52.06
1981 52.96
1982 53.83
1983 54.67
1984 55.49
1985 56.31
1986 57.16
1987 58.08
1988 59.07
1989 60.13
1990 61.25
1991 62.40
1992 63.55
1993 64.66
1994 65.73
1995 66.75
1996 67.73
1997 68.67
1998 69.59
1999 70.49
2000 71.36
2001 72.18
2002 72.94
2003 73.65
2004 74.30
2005 74.89
2006 75.44
2007 75.96
2008 76.44
2009 76.92
2010 77.38
2011 77.83
2012 78.27
2013 78.69
2014 79.10
2015 79.49
2016 79.85
2017 80.19
2018 80.50
2019 80.78
2020 81.04

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