Moldova - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Moldova was 76.25 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 76.25 in 2020 and a minimum value of 65.79 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 65.79
1961 66.10
1962 66.40
1963 66.71
1964 67.01
1965 67.30
1966 67.57
1967 67.82
1968 68.02
1969 68.18
1970 68.30
1971 68.38
1972 68.43
1973 68.46
1974 68.47
1975 68.46
1976 68.43
1977 68.36
1978 68.28
1979 68.21
1980 68.17
1981 68.23
1982 68.39
1983 68.66
1984 69.04
1985 69.47
1986 69.92
1987 70.34
1988 70.66
1989 70.89
1990 71.00
1991 71.01
1992 70.94
1993 70.84
1994 70.73
1995 70.64
1996 70.59
1997 70.60
1998 70.67
1999 70.80
2000 70.96
2001 71.14
2002 71.30
2003 71.44
2004 71.55
2005 71.68
2006 71.87
2007 72.17
2008 72.57
2009 73.07
2010 73.64
2011 74.22
2012 74.75
2013 75.20
2014 75.53
2015 75.76
2016 75.90
2017 75.99
2018 76.07
2019 76.16
2020 76.25

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