Peru - Life expectancy at birth, total (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, total (years) in Peru was 76.95 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 76.95 in 2020 and a minimum value of 48.01 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 48.01
1961 48.63
1962 49.22
1963 49.79
1964 50.33
1965 50.87
1966 51.43
1967 52.04
1968 52.70
1969 53.42
1970 54.17
1971 54.94
1972 55.67
1973 56.36
1974 56.99
1975 57.58
1976 58.11
1977 58.64
1978 59.16
1979 59.69
1980 60.24
1981 60.80
1982 61.38
1983 61.96
1984 62.54
1985 63.13
1986 63.73
1987 64.34
1988 64.95
1989 65.56
1990 66.17
1991 66.76
1992 67.33
1993 67.88
1994 68.41
1995 68.90
1996 69.38
1997 69.83
1998 70.27
1999 70.70
2000 71.11
2001 71.51
2002 71.88
2003 72.24
2004 72.58
2005 72.91
2006 73.22
2007 73.53
2008 73.83
2009 74.12
2010 74.41
2011 74.70
2012 74.98
2013 75.26
2014 75.53
2015 75.79
2016 76.04
2017 76.29
2018 76.52
2019 76.74
2020 76.95

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