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

The value for Life expectancy at birth, total (years) in Other small states was 69.03 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 69.03 in 2020 and a minimum value of 51.41 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 51.41
1961 51.86
1962 52.30
1963 52.71
1964 53.12
1965 53.51
1966 53.85
1967 54.21
1968 54.55
1969 54.89
1970 55.25
1971 55.59
1972 55.95
1973 56.27
1974 56.59
1975 56.93
1976 57.31
1977 57.68
1978 58.11
1979 58.56
1980 59.08
1981 59.55
1982 60.02
1983 60.47
1984 60.85
1985 61.21
1986 61.59
1987 61.88
1988 62.09
1989 62.19
1990 62.22
1991 62.25
1992 62.14
1993 61.91
1994 61.61
1995 61.42
1996 61.28
1997 60.98
1998 60.63
1999 60.40
2000 60.24
2001 60.11
2002 60.10
2003 60.21
2004 60.48
2005 60.91
2006 61.41
2007 62.05
2008 62.80
2009 63.57
2010 64.33
2011 65.03
2012 65.70
2013 66.34
2014 66.89
2015 67.41
2016 67.83
2017 68.22
2018 68.55
2019 68.84
2020 69.03

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