Other small states - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Other small states was 70.72 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 70.72 in 2020 and a minimum value of 53.98 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 53.98
1961 54.42
1962 54.84
1963 55.24
1964 55.63
1965 56.00
1966 56.36
1967 56.70
1968 57.04
1969 57.39
1970 57.78
1971 58.14
1972 58.52
1973 58.89
1974 59.26
1975 59.63
1976 60.03
1977 60.43
1978 60.85
1979 61.30
1980 61.79
1981 62.20
1982 62.65
1983 63.10
1984 63.43
1985 63.77
1986 64.11
1987 64.37
1988 64.56
1989 64.68
1990 64.78
1991 64.82
1992 64.71
1993 64.48
1994 64.19
1995 64.02
1996 63.79
1997 63.43
1998 62.99
1999 62.65
2000 62.38
2001 62.18
2002 62.08
2003 62.06
2004 62.27
2005 62.59
2006 63.00
2007 63.57
2008 64.25
2009 64.98
2010 65.73
2011 66.47
2012 67.18
2013 67.85
2014 68.47
2015 69.00
2016 69.47
2017 69.88
2018 70.21
2019 70.50
2020 70.72

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