Tunisia - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Tunisia was 78.90 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 78.90 in 2020 and a minimum value of 43.01 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 43.01
1961 43.65
1962 44.36
1963 45.14
1964 45.98
1965 46.89
1966 47.87
1967 48.91
1968 50.01
1969 51.14
1970 52.29
1971 53.43
1972 54.55
1973 55.65
1974 56.71
1975 57.76
1976 58.81
1977 59.89
1978 61.00
1979 62.13
1980 63.24
1981 64.31
1982 65.29
1983 66.17
1984 66.95
1985 67.64
1986 68.29
1987 68.93
1988 69.59
1989 70.28
1990 70.98
1991 71.70
1992 72.38
1993 73.03
1994 73.61
1995 74.12
1996 74.56
1997 74.95
1998 75.28
1999 75.57
2000 75.82
2001 76.05
2002 76.26
2003 76.45
2004 76.64
2005 76.81
2006 76.96
2007 77.10
2008 77.21
2009 77.31
2010 77.39
2011 77.48
2012 77.58
2013 77.70
2014 77.83
2015 77.99
2016 78.17
2017 78.35
2018 78.54
2019 78.72
2020 78.90

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