Togo - Life expectancy at birth, total (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, total (years) in Togo was 61.34 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 61.34 in 2020 and a minimum value of 40.30 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, 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 40.30
1961 40.94
1962 41.58
1963 42.22
1964 42.85
1965 43.47
1966 44.10
1967 44.72
1968 45.34
1969 45.96
1970 46.57
1971 47.18
1972 47.78
1973 48.37
1974 48.96
1975 49.54
1976 50.11
1977 50.68
1978 51.25
1979 51.80
1980 52.34
1981 52.86
1982 53.37
1983 53.84
1984 54.28
1985 54.67
1986 55.03
1987 55.34
1988 55.59
1989 55.78
1990 55.89
1991 55.87
1992 55.73
1993 55.49
1994 55.15
1995 54.76
1996 54.36
1997 54.00
1998 53.72
1999 53.55
2000 53.49
2001 53.55
2002 53.71
2003 53.94
2004 54.23
2005 54.60
2006 55.05
2007 55.58
2008 56.18
2009 56.82
2010 57.47
2011 58.09
2012 58.66
2013 59.16
2014 59.58
2015 59.93
2016 60.22
2017 60.49
2018 60.76
2019 61.04
2020 61.34

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