Micronesia - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Micronesia was 69.74 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 69.74 in 2020 and a minimum value of 56.59 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 56.59
1961 57.02
1962 57.44
1963 57.86
1964 58.28
1965 58.69
1966 59.10
1967 59.51
1968 59.92
1969 60.32
1970 60.73
1971 61.13
1972 61.54
1973 61.94
1974 62.32
1975 62.69
1976 63.03
1977 63.33
1978 63.60
1979 63.84
1980 64.03
1981 64.19
1982 64.32
1983 64.43
1984 64.52
1985 64.61
1986 64.70
1987 64.79
1988 64.88
1989 64.99
1990 65.10
1991 65.21
1992 65.31
1993 65.41
1994 65.50
1995 65.58
1996 65.67
1997 65.77
1998 65.89
1999 66.02
2000 66.17
2001 66.34
2002 66.52
2003 66.72
2004 66.93
2005 67.14
2006 67.35
2007 67.56
2008 67.76
2009 67.96
2010 68.15
2011 68.33
2012 68.51
2013 68.68
2014 68.84
2015 69.00
2016 69.16
2017 69.31
2018 69.45
2019 69.60
2020 69.74

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