Mauritania - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Mauritania was 66.73 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 66.73 in 2020 and a minimum value of 45.43 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 45.43
1961 46.20
1962 46.97
1963 47.72
1964 48.46
1965 49.17
1966 49.82
1967 50.42
1968 50.96
1969 51.45
1970 51.90
1971 52.33
1972 52.75
1973 53.18
1974 53.63
1975 54.10
1976 54.60
1977 55.11
1978 55.63
1979 56.16
1980 56.69
1981 57.22
1982 57.75
1983 58.29
1984 58.80
1985 59.30
1986 59.77
1987 60.20
1988 60.58
1989 60.92
1990 61.22
1991 61.46
1992 61.65
1993 61.82
1994 61.95
1995 62.07
1996 62.16
1997 62.24
1998 62.32
1999 62.40
2000 62.49
2001 62.60
2002 62.71
2003 62.85
2004 63.00
2005 63.17
2006 63.36
2007 63.57
2008 63.80
2009 64.04
2010 64.29
2011 64.55
2012 64.81
2013 65.07
2014 65.33
2015 65.58
2016 65.82
2017 66.06
2018 66.29
2019 66.52
2020 66.73

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