Uganda - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Uganda was 66.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 66.00 in 2020 and a minimum value of 45.86 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 45.86
1961 46.45
1962 47.05
1963 47.65
1964 48.23
1965 48.79
1966 49.30
1967 49.75
1968 50.13
1969 50.43
1970 50.67
1971 50.84
1972 50.96
1973 51.05
1974 51.11
1975 51.16
1976 51.21
1977 51.26
1978 51.31
1979 51.36
1980 51.40
1981 51.42
1982 51.40
1983 51.33
1984 51.20
1985 51.01
1986 50.74
1987 50.40
1988 50.01
1989 49.59
1990 49.16
1991 48.72
1992 48.29
1993 47.92
1994 47.64
1995 47.48
1996 47.49
1997 47.69
1998 48.07
1999 48.63
2000 49.34
2001 50.17
2002 51.07
2003 52.01
2004 52.94
2005 53.88
2006 54.81
2007 55.76
2008 56.74
2009 57.73
2010 58.73
2011 59.71
2012 60.68
2013 61.62
2014 62.50
2015 63.30
2016 64.02
2017 64.64
2018 65.17
2019 65.62
2020 66.00

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