South Africa | Life expectancy at birth, total (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. Limitations and exceptions: Annual data series for males and females are interpolated from 5-year period data. Therefore they may not reflect real events as much as observed data.
| year | value |
|---|---|
| 1960 | 49.03629268 |
| 1961 | 49.42980488 |
| 1962 | 49.81329268 |
| 1963 | 50.1957561 |
| 1964 | 50.5817561 |
| 1965 | 50.97182927 |
| 1966 | 51.36302439 |
| 1967 | 51.74941463 |
| 1968 | 52.126 |
| 1969 | 52.49326829 |
| 1970 | 52.85068293 |
| 1971 | 53.19665854 |
| 1972 | 53.53463415 |
| 1973 | 53.87204878 |
| 1974 | 54.21590244 |
| 1975 | 54.57919512 |
| 1976 | 54.97695122 |
| 1977 | 55.41473171 |
| 1978 | 55.89507317 |
| 1979 | 56.4135122 |
| 1980 | 56.97002439 |
| 1981 | 57.55960976 |
| 1982 | 58.1657561 |
| 1983 | 58.76792683 |
| 1984 | 59.34570732 |
| 1985 | 59.88507317 |
| 1986 | 60.37602439 |
| 1987 | 60.80714634 |
| 1988 | 61.1624878 |
| 1989 | 61.41860976 |
| 1990 | 61.54960976 |
| 1991 | 61.53153659 |
| 1992 | 61.35692683 |
| 1993 | 61.02485366 |
| 1994 | 60.53882927 |
| 1995 | 59.88741463 |
| 1996 | 59.06270732 |
| 1997 | 58.09112195 |
| 1998 | 57.01760976 |
| 1999 | 55.89253659 |
| 2000 | 54.77631707 |
| 2001 | 53.72731707 |
| 2002 | 52.79241463 |
| 2003 | 52.01343902 |
| 2004 | 51.4252439 |
| 2005 | 51.05968293 |
| 2006 | 50.92965854 |
| 2007 | 51.00365854 |
| 2008 | 51.24021951 |
| 2009 | 51.61131707 |
| 2010 | 52.0814878 |
| 2011 | 52.61478049 |
| 2012 |
South Africa | Life expectancy at birth, total (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. Limitations and exceptions: Annual data series for males and females are interpolated from 5-year period data. Therefore they may not reflect real events as much as observed data.