Thailand - Life expectancy at birth, total (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, total (years) in Thailand was 77.34 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 77.34 in 2020 and a minimum value of 54.70 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 54.70
1961 55.23
1962 55.75
1963 56.23
1964 56.69
1965 57.13
1966 57.57
1967 58.00
1968 58.44
1969 58.90
1970 59.39
1971 59.89
1972 60.40
1973 60.93
1974 61.46
1975 61.99
1976 62.50
1977 62.99
1978 63.46
1979 63.94
1980 64.43
1981 64.99
1982 65.64
1983 66.35
1984 67.13
1985 67.91
1986 68.64
1987 69.27
1988 69.75
1989 70.07
1990 70.25
1991 70.30
1992 70.28
1993 70.24
1994 70.20
1995 70.19
1996 70.22
1997 70.27
1998 70.35
1999 70.46
2000 70.62
2001 70.83
2002 71.09
2003 71.39
2004 71.73
2005 72.10
2006 72.50
2007 72.92
2008 73.34
2009 73.77
2010 74.18
2011 74.59
2012 74.99
2013 75.38
2014 75.75
2015 76.09
2016 76.40
2017 76.68
2018 76.93
2019 77.15
2020 77.34

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