Sudan - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Sudan was 67.43 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 67.43 in 2020 and a minimum value of 49.65 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 49.65
1961 50.08
1962 50.50
1963 50.91
1964 51.32
1965 51.72
1966 52.13
1967 52.53
1968 52.94
1969 53.33
1970 53.70
1971 54.06
1972 54.38
1973 54.66
1974 54.92
1975 55.13
1976 55.30
1977 55.44
1978 55.56
1979 55.66
1980 55.75
1981 55.84
1982 55.93
1983 56.02
1984 56.13
1985 56.25
1986 56.38
1987 56.52
1988 56.68
1989 56.84
1990 57.02
1991 57.23
1992 57.48
1993 57.75
1994 58.07
1995 58.41
1996 58.78
1997 59.18
1998 59.58
1999 60.00
2000 60.42
2001 60.83
2002 61.25
2003 61.67
2004 62.08
2005 62.49
2006 62.91
2007 63.32
2008 63.73
2009 64.15
2010 64.55
2011 64.93
2012 65.28
2013 65.62
2014 65.92
2015 66.20
2016 66.46
2017 66.71
2018 66.95
2019 67.19
2020 67.43

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