Saudi Arabia - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Saudi Arabia was 76.92 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 76.92 in 2020 and a minimum value of 47.76 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 47.76
1961 48.26
1962 48.77
1963 49.31
1964 49.88
1965 50.50
1966 51.20
1967 51.98
1968 52.84
1969 53.78
1970 54.79
1971 55.84
1972 56.91
1973 57.98
1974 59.02
1975 60.03
1976 61.01
1977 61.95
1978 62.86
1979 63.74
1980 64.57
1981 65.36
1982 66.11
1983 66.82
1984 67.48
1985 68.11
1986 68.72
1987 69.31
1988 69.88
1989 70.44
1990 70.98
1991 71.51
1992 72.00
1993 72.45
1994 72.87
1995 73.24
1996 73.56
1997 73.84
1998 74.07
1999 74.27
2000 74.44
2001 74.57
2002 74.67
2003 74.74
2004 74.81
2005 74.88
2006 74.97
2007 75.07
2008 75.20
2009 75.36
2010 75.53
2011 75.71
2012 75.87
2013 76.02
2014 76.15
2015 76.26
2016 76.37
2017 76.49
2018 76.62
2019 76.76
2020 76.92

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