Latin America & Caribbean | Life expectancy at birth, female (years)
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. 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.
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The World Bank
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Latin America & Caribbean
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63
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Latin America & Caribbean | Life expectancy at birth, female (years)
57.45534547 1960
58.00586572 1961
58.46323756 1962
58.88689782 1963
59.41477118 1964
59.86276561 1965
60.26201846 1966
60.66707628 1967
61.07126353 1968
61.43478556 1969
61.47288314 1970
62.35075233 1971
62.76203178 1972
63.35295733 1973
63.77527084 1974
64.37746973 1975
64.64905408 1976
65.32869595 1977
65.77299245 1978
66.17554837 1979
66.60403965 1980
67.16163063 1981
67.51957126 1982
68.02768708 1983
68.44706194 1984
68.69483814 1985
69.32352738 1986
69.78052768 1987
70.19837341 1988
70.61802336 1989
71.01500037 1990
71.38499261 1991
71.7252589 1992
72.06638468 1993
72.40929108 1994
72.7550819 1995
73.11842389 1996
73.48396869 1997
73.70156402 1998
74.11449086 1999
74.56404615 2000
74.84243279 2001
75.16770535 2002
75.26610781 2003
75.59705114 2004
75.92541598 2005
76.12905044 2006
76.26441431 2007
76.4669692 2008
76.64338422 2009
76.52128478 2010
77.00052747 2011
77.2492793 2012
77.43955184 2013
77.6037892 2014
77.71638891 2015
77.76671891 2016
77.83113665 2017
77.97540504 2018
78.17531138 2019
76.59631668 2020
75.69983429 2021
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Latin America & Caribbean | Life expectancy at birth, female (years)
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. 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.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Latin America & Caribbean
Records
63
Source