Syrian Arab Republic - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Syrian Arab Republic was 78.42 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 78.42 in 2020 and a minimum value of 53.39 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 53.39
1961 54.00
1962 54.62
1963 55.25
1964 55.89
1965 56.55
1966 57.23
1967 57.94
1968 58.68
1969 59.44
1970 60.22
1971 60.99
1972 61.76
1973 62.51
1974 63.23
1975 63.93
1976 64.60
1977 65.24
1978 65.87
1979 66.48
1980 67.07
1981 67.66
1982 68.23
1983 68.80
1984 69.35
1985 69.88
1986 70.38
1987 70.86
1988 71.30
1989 71.72
1990 72.10
1991 72.47
1992 72.81
1993 73.15
1994 73.47
1995 73.79
1996 74.11
1997 74.41
1998 74.71
1999 74.99
2000 75.27
2001 75.57
2002 75.88
2003 76.20
2004 76.51
2005 76.77
2006 76.96
2007 77.05
2008 77.03
2009 76.93
2010 76.78
2011 76.62
2012 76.52
2013 76.51
2014 76.60
2015 76.80
2016 77.08
2017 77.42
2018 77.76
2019 78.10
2020 78.42

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