Mali - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Mali was 60.49 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 60.49 in 2020 and a minimum value of 29.03 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 29.03
1961 29.21
1962 29.43
1963 29.70
1964 30.03
1965 30.43
1966 30.90
1967 31.42
1968 32.01
1969 32.63
1970 33.30
1971 33.98
1972 34.69
1973 35.40
1974 36.11
1975 36.83
1976 37.55
1977 38.30
1978 39.05
1979 39.81
1980 40.57
1981 41.32
1982 42.03
1983 42.71
1984 43.34
1985 43.94
1986 44.50
1987 45.04
1988 45.55
1989 46.04
1990 46.47
1991 46.82
1992 47.06
1993 47.21
1994 47.29
1995 47.34
1996 47.41
1997 47.56
1998 47.82
1999 48.22
2000 48.75
2001 49.42
2002 50.19
2003 51.01
2004 51.86
2005 52.68
2006 53.46
2007 54.17
2008 54.81
2009 55.38
2010 55.87
2011 56.33
2012 56.77
2013 57.23
2014 57.70
2015 58.19
2016 58.70
2017 59.19
2018 59.65
2019 60.09
2020 60.49

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