Montenegro - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Montenegro was 78.80 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 79.50 in 2019 and a minimum value of 64.96 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 64.96
1961 65.66
1962 66.37
1963 67.07
1964 67.77
1965 68.46
1966 69.18
1967 69.94
1968 70.73
1969 71.54
1970 72.35
1971 73.13
1972 73.85
1973 74.48
1974 75.02
1975 75.44
1976 75.76
1977 75.98
1978 76.14
1979 76.25
1980 76.33
1981 76.40
1982 76.46
1983 76.54
1984 76.63
1985 76.76
1986 76.94
1987 77.14
1988 77.36
1989 77.57
1990 77.75
1991 77.83
1992 77.81
1993 77.68
1994 77.45
1995 77.14
1996 76.81
1997 76.51
1998 76.27
1999 76.11
2000 76.04
2001 76.02
2002 76.04
2003 76.07
2004 76.11
2005 76.80
2006 76.40
2007 76.90
2008 77.80
2009 77.50
2010 78.50
2011 78.80
2012 78.30
2013 79.00
2014 78.90
2015 78.60
2016 78.90
2017 79.20
2018 79.30
2019 79.50
2020 78.80

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