Niger - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Niger was 64.01 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 64.01 in 2020 and a minimum value of 35.47 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 35.47
1961 35.56
1962 35.65
1963 35.72
1964 35.80
1965 35.87
1966 35.94
1967 36.01
1968 36.11
1969 36.22
1970 36.36
1971 36.52
1972 36.71
1973 36.93
1974 37.17
1975 37.46
1976 37.79
1977 38.17
1978 38.60
1979 39.07
1980 39.56
1981 40.05
1982 40.54
1983 41.00
1984 41.44
1985 41.87
1986 42.29
1987 42.73
1988 43.19
1989 43.69
1990 44.22
1991 44.79
1992 45.39
1993 46.01
1994 46.65
1995 47.30
1996 47.96
1997 48.61
1998 49.27
1999 49.93
2000 50.59
2001 51.26
2002 51.96
2003 52.68
2004 53.43
2005 54.21
2006 55.02
2007 55.85
2008 56.69
2009 57.53
2010 58.35
2011 59.14
2012 59.89
2013 60.58
2014 61.21
2015 61.79
2016 62.31
2017 62.78
2018 63.21
2019 63.62
2020 64.01

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