Papua New Guinea - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Papua New Guinea was 66.06 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 66.06 in 2020 and a minimum value of 39.52 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 39.52
1961 40.18
1962 40.86
1963 41.56
1964 42.27
1965 43.00
1966 43.75
1967 44.51
1968 45.28
1969 46.06
1970 46.83
1971 47.58
1972 48.33
1973 49.05
1974 49.76
1975 50.46
1976 51.16
1977 51.86
1978 52.57
1979 53.27
1980 53.95
1981 54.59
1982 55.16
1983 55.67
1984 56.10
1985 56.47
1986 56.80
1987 57.11
1988 57.41
1989 57.72
1990 58.05
1991 58.38
1992 58.71
1993 59.03
1994 59.34
1995 59.63
1996 59.89
1997 60.12
1998 60.33
1999 60.53
2000 60.72
2001 60.91
2002 61.12
2003 61.36
2004 61.63
2005 61.92
2006 62.23
2007 62.54
2008 62.85
2009 63.16
2010 63.45
2011 63.73
2012 64.00
2013 64.27
2014 64.54
2015 64.81
2016 65.07
2017 65.33
2018 65.58
2019 65.82
2020 66.06

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