Seychelles - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Seychelles was 82.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 40 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 82.00 in 2020 and a minimum value of 72.60 in 1986.

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
1980 73.90
1981 72.80
1982 74.60
1983 75.30
1984 73.60
1985 76.10
1986 72.60
1987 73.00
1988 72.80
1989 73.40
1990 74.10
1991 76.50
1992 76.90
1993 75.00
1994 75.80
1995 79.50
1996 77.40
1997 77.00
1998 76.10
1999 78.20
2000 77.90
2001 79.40
2002 75.80
2003 76.10
2004 76.40
2005 77.10
2006 75.70
2007 77.60
2008 78.90
2009 78.00
2010 77.50
2011 78.00
2012 79.50
2013 76.50
2014 78.30
2015 78.70
2016 80.20
2017 78.50
2018 77.40
2019 78.40
2020 82.00

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