Lower middle income | 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
Origin
Lower middle income
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63
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Lower middle income | Life expectancy at birth, female (years)
47.38038955 1960
47.74642514 1961
48.05715204 1962
48.40524216 1963
48.82653994 1964
48.38037001 1965
48.84690929 1966
49.19411876 1967
50.15153947 1968
50.54850102 1969
50.47505007 1970
50.22556885 1971
51.4883896 1972
52.04073752 1973
52.46837877 1974
53.07433954 1975
53.60268623 1976
54.34024576 1977
54.9395566 1978
55.57631153 1979
56.14978824 1980
56.71951095 1981
57.26127583 1982
57.80715061 1983
58.29161455 1984
58.697027 1985
59.14628629 1986
59.53676433 1987
59.9570765 1988
60.35001482 1989
60.66586643 1990
60.88218297 1991
61.2826335 1992
61.46733754 1993
61.70353972 1994
61.94353154 1995
62.22317776 1996
62.65848478 1997
63.08979318 1998
63.61557944 1999
63.94809347 2000
64.32445848 2001
64.79059732 2002
65.19069782 2003
65.58736884 2004
66.01267242 2005
66.48815345 2006
66.82102105 2007
67.01077575 2008
67.49920995 2009
67.89362453 2010
68.36778435 2011
68.78961476 2012
69.20112437 2013
69.5616326 2014
69.89672553 2015
70.23957381 2016
70.57972285 2017
70.80672984 2018
71.04868627 2019
70.58378183 2020
68.94638243 2021
2022
Lower middle income | 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
Lower middle income
Records
63
Source