Nicaragua - Life expectancy at birth, total (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, total (years) in Nicaragua was 74.70 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 74.70 in 2020 and a minimum value of 47.00 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, or derived from male and female life expectancy at birth from sources such as: (2) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (3)

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Year Value
1960 47.00
1961 47.64
1962 48.28
1963 48.92
1964 49.57
1965 50.22
1966 50.87
1967 51.54
1968 52.21
1969 52.87
1970 53.52
1971 54.15
1972 54.74
1973 55.31
1974 55.83
1975 56.32
1976 56.76
1977 57.18
1978 57.57
1979 57.96
1980 58.35
1981 58.76
1982 59.20
1983 59.67
1984 60.19
1985 60.76
1986 61.39
1987 62.08
1988 62.80
1989 63.55
1990 64.29
1991 65.01
1992 65.68
1993 66.30
1994 66.85
1995 67.34
1996 67.80
1997 68.23
1998 68.67
1999 69.10
2000 69.53
2001 69.93
2002 70.31
2003 70.64
2004 70.93
2005 71.20
2006 71.44
2007 71.67
2008 71.92
2009 72.17
2010 72.43
2011 72.69
2012 72.95
2013 73.20
2014 73.43
2015 73.65
2016 73.86
2017 74.07
2018 74.28
2019 74.49
2020 74.70

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