Zimbabwe - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Zimbabwe was 63.16 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 63.75 in 1986 and a minimum value of 44.85 in 2004.

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 54.67
1961 55.14
1962 55.61
1963 56.07
1964 56.52
1965 56.95
1966 57.35
1967 57.73
1968 58.06
1969 58.36
1970 58.63
1971 58.86
1972 59.05
1973 59.23
1974 59.41
1975 59.61
1976 59.86
1977 60.17
1978 60.55
1979 60.98
1980 61.46
1981 61.99
1982 62.53
1983 63.03
1984 63.44
1985 63.70
1986 63.75
1987 63.55
1988 63.08
1989 62.36
1990 61.36
1991 60.09
1992 58.61
1993 57.00
1994 55.31
1995 53.63
1996 52.00
1997 50.47
1998 49.09
1999 47.89
2000 46.91
2001 46.11
2002 45.49
2003 45.06
2004 44.85
2005 44.96
2006 45.54
2007 46.60
2008 48.14
2009 50.07
2010 52.24
2011 54.47
2012 56.58
2013 58.41
2014 59.89
2015 60.98
2016 61.72
2017 62.22
2018 62.60
2019 62.90
2020 63.16

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