Romania - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Romania was 78.40 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 79.50 in 2019 and a minimum value of 67.51 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 67.51
1961 68.33
1962 69.00
1963 69.48
1964 69.75
1965 69.87
1966 69.89
1967 69.90
1968 69.97
1969 70.13
1970 70.37
1971 70.85
1972 70.77
1973 71.29
1974 71.82
1975 71.97
1976 72.06
1977 72.18
1978 71.98
1979 71.75
1980 71.78
1981 72.17
1982 72.40
1983 72.61
1984 72.65
1985 72.78
1986 72.59
1987 72.30
1988 72.41
1989 72.65
1990 73.05
1991 73.17
1992 73.17
1993 73.20
1994 73.30
1995 73.40
1996 73.10
1997 73.00
1998 73.70
1999 74.20
2000 74.80
2001 74.90
2002 74.80
2003 75.10
2004 75.30
2005 75.60
2006 75.80
2007 76.10
2008 76.10
2009 77.10
2010 77.30
2011 78.20
2012 78.10
2013 78.70
2014 78.70
2015 78.60
2016 79.00
2017 79.10
2018 79.20
2019 79.50
2020 78.40

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