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

The value for Life expectancy at birth, total (years) in Syrian Arab Republic was 73.65 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 74.43 in 2005 and a minimum value of 51.97 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, or derived from male and female life expectancy at birth from sources such as: (2) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (3)

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Year Value
1960 51.97
1961 52.57
1962 53.18
1963 53.80
1964 54.44
1965 55.10
1966 55.79
1967 56.51
1968 57.26
1969 58.03
1970 58.81
1971 59.60
1972 60.38
1973 61.14
1974 61.87
1975 62.58
1976 63.26
1977 63.91
1978 64.55
1979 65.17
1980 65.77
1981 66.36
1982 66.93
1983 67.48
1984 68.01
1985 68.51
1986 68.98
1987 69.42
1988 69.83
1989 70.21
1990 70.55
1991 70.87
1992 71.17
1993 71.44
1994 71.71
1995 71.96
1996 72.21
1997 72.44
1998 72.66
1999 72.88
2000 73.11
2001 73.37
2002 73.66
2003 73.97
2004 74.25
2005 74.43
2006 74.41
2007 74.15
2008 73.65
2009 72.94
2010 72.11
2011 71.27
2012 70.55
2013 70.05
2014 69.82
2015 69.91
2016 70.32
2017 70.97
2018 71.78
2019 72.70
2020 73.65

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