Samoa - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Samoa was 75.61 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 75.61 in 2020 and a minimum value of 60.25 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 60.25
1961 60.54
1962 60.82
1963 61.10
1964 61.38
1965 61.66
1966 61.94
1967 62.23
1968 62.54
1969 62.85
1970 63.18
1971 63.51
1972 63.85
1973 64.19
1974 64.53
1975 64.88
1976 65.23
1977 65.59
1978 65.95
1979 66.32
1980 66.69
1981 67.05
1982 67.41
1983 67.75
1984 68.07
1985 68.38
1986 68.65
1987 68.90
1988 69.12
1989 69.33
1990 69.51
1991 69.66
1992 69.79
1993 69.91
1994 70.03
1995 70.16
1996 70.33
1997 70.54
1998 70.79
1999 71.08
2000 71.41
2001 71.75
2002 72.09
2003 72.40
2004 72.69
2005 72.94
2006 73.17
2007 73.39
2008 73.61
2009 73.82
2010 74.03
2011 74.23
2012 74.42
2013 74.60
2014 74.76
2015 74.91
2016 75.05
2017 75.19
2018 75.33
2019 75.46
2020 75.61

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