Small states - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Small states was 71.82 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 71.82 in 2020 and a minimum value of 57.30 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 57.30
1961 57.73
1962 58.14
1963 58.52
1964 58.89
1965 59.24
1966 59.57
1967 59.88
1968 60.19
1969 60.50
1970 60.83
1971 61.14
1972 61.46
1973 61.79
1974 62.10
1975 62.42
1976 62.76
1977 63.08
1978 63.43
1979 63.79
1980 64.17
1981 64.51
1982 64.86
1983 65.22
1984 65.49
1985 65.76
1986 66.03
1987 66.25
1988 66.41
1989 66.53
1990 66.63
1991 66.70
1992 66.66
1993 66.54
1994 66.36
1995 66.27
1996 66.13
1997 65.90
1998 65.60
1999 65.38
2000 65.21
2001 65.09
2002 65.05
2003 65.06
2004 65.24
2005 65.50
2006 65.82
2007 66.26
2008 66.77
2009 67.32
2010 67.89
2011 68.46
2012 69.00
2013 69.51
2014 70.00
2015 70.42
2016 70.79
2017 71.12
2018 71.39
2019 71.64
2020 71.82

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