São Tomé and Principe - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in São Tomé and Principe was 73.03 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 73.03 in 2020 and a minimum value of 52.05 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 52.05
1961 52.60
1962 53.13
1963 53.65
1964 54.15
1965 54.63
1966 55.08
1967 55.53
1968 55.98
1969 56.44
1970 56.91
1971 57.40
1972 57.92
1973 58.46
1974 59.01
1975 59.55
1976 60.09
1977 60.59
1978 61.03
1979 61.41
1980 61.69
1981 61.85
1982 61.89
1983 61.82
1984 61.66
1985 61.42
1986 61.13
1987 60.83
1988 60.54
1989 60.31
1990 60.16
1991 60.09
1992 60.11
1993 60.21
1994 60.41
1995 60.69
1996 61.08
1997 61.55
1998 62.10
1999 62.70
2000 63.34
2001 64.02
2002 64.72
2003 65.41
2004 66.10
2005 66.76
2006 67.40
2007 68.01
2008 68.60
2009 69.15
2010 69.67
2011 70.15
2012 70.60
2013 71.02
2014 71.39
2015 71.74
2016 72.05
2017 72.33
2018 72.58
2019 72.81
2020 73.03

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