Peru - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Peru was 79.71 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 79.71 in 2020 and a minimum value of 49.56 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 49.56
1961 50.20
1962 50.83
1963 51.42
1964 51.98
1965 52.53
1966 53.11
1967 53.73
1968 54.41
1969 55.15
1970 55.92
1971 56.71
1972 57.47
1973 58.19
1974 58.85
1975 59.45
1976 60.02
1977 60.57
1978 61.12
1979 61.67
1980 62.25
1981 62.84
1982 63.45
1983 64.06
1984 64.68
1985 65.30
1986 65.93
1987 66.55
1988 67.17
1989 67.78
1990 68.37
1991 68.95
1992 69.51
1993 70.05
1994 70.57
1995 71.07
1996 71.55
1997 72.02
1998 72.48
1999 72.92
2000 73.35
2001 73.77
2002 74.17
2003 74.55
2004 74.91
2005 75.26
2006 75.60
2007 75.93
2008 76.25
2009 76.57
2010 76.89
2011 77.21
2012 77.53
2013 77.85
2014 78.16
2015 78.47
2016 78.76
2017 79.03
2018 79.28
2019 79.51
2020 79.71

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