Yemen - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Yemen was 67.89 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 67.89 in 2020 and a minimum value of 31.06 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 31.06
1961 31.31
1962 31.65
1963 32.10
1964 32.67
1965 33.36
1966 34.17
1967 35.06
1968 36.02
1969 37.03
1970 38.08
1971 39.15
1972 40.25
1973 41.37
1974 42.51
1975 43.67
1976 44.87
1977 46.11
1978 47.38
1979 48.67
1980 49.97
1981 51.24
1982 52.47
1983 53.63
1984 54.70
1985 55.66
1986 56.50
1987 57.23
1988 57.86
1989 58.40
1990 58.86
1991 59.24
1992 59.55
1993 59.83
1994 60.09
1995 60.36
1996 60.66
1997 60.99
1998 61.37
1999 61.80
2000 62.28
2001 62.81
2002 63.38
2003 63.96
2004 64.53
2005 65.09
2006 65.62
2007 66.11
2008 66.54
2009 66.92
2010 67.23
2011 67.46
2012 67.62
2013 67.72
2014 67.77
2015 67.79
2016 67.79
2017 67.79
2018 67.80
2019 67.83
2020 67.89

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