Russia - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Russia was 76.43 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 78.17 in 2019 and a minimum value of 70.24 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 70.24
1961 70.82
1962 71.29
1963 71.67
1964 71.98
1965 72.22
1966 72.41
1967 72.56
1968 72.67
1969 72.76
1970 73.44
1971 73.77
1972 73.62
1973 73.56
1974 73.77
1975 73.23
1976 73.05
1977 73.20
1978 73.23
1979 73.02
1980 72.96
1981 73.19
1982 73.64
1983 73.42
1984 72.97
1985 73.24
1986 74.23
1987 74.27
1988 74.53
1989 74.35
1990 74.30
1991 73.75
1992 71.99
1993 71.20
1994 71.73
1995 71.59
1996 72.40
1997 72.84
1998 73.13
1999 72.40
2000 72.26
2001 72.17
2002 71.90
2003 71.85
2004 72.36
2005 72.47
2006 73.34
2007 74.02
2008 74.28
2009 74.79
2010 74.88
2011 75.61
2012 75.86
2013 76.30
2014 76.47
2015 76.71
2016 77.06
2017 77.64
2018 77.82
2019 78.17
2020 76.43

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