Ukraine - Life expectancy at birth, total (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, total (years) in Ukraine was 71.19 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 71.83 in 2019 and a minimum value of 66.74 in 1995.

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 68.30
1961 68.76
1962 69.15
1963 69.46
1964 69.71
1965 69.91
1966 70.06
1967 70.16
1968 70.22
1969 70.25
1970 70.24
1971 70.18
1972 70.09
1973 69.96
1974 69.81
1975 69.63
1976 69.45
1977 69.25
1978 69.07
1979 68.92
1980 68.82
1981 68.81
1982 68.90
1983 69.08
1984 69.32
1985 69.57
1986 69.79
1987 70.50
1988 70.50
1989 70.52
1990 70.10
1991 69.30
1992 68.77
1993 68.13
1994 67.54
1995 66.74
1996 67.02
1997 67.58
1998 68.37
1999 67.98
2000 67.68
2001 67.84
2002 68.28
2003 68.21
2004 68.19
2005 67.96
2006 68.08
2007 68.22
2008 68.25
2009 69.19
2010 70.27
2011 70.81
2012 70.94
2013 71.16
2014 71.19
2015 71.19
2016 71.48
2017 71.78
2018 71.58
2019 71.83
2020 71.19

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