Upper middle income | 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. 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
Upper middle income
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63
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Upper middle income | Life expectancy at birth, total (years)
1960 43.65213873
1961 48.00135942
1962 53.81688925
1963 54.34722591
1964 54.99437845
1965 54.95339804
1966 55.86857312
1967 56.52370093
1968 57.02122505
1969 57.47326752
1970 58.14711664
1971 58.92196469
1972 59.55314908
1973 60.25718174
1974 60.83521971
1975 61.35652482
1976 61.96071294
1977 62.54160771
1978 63.05800864
1979 63.54254116
1980 64.00344366
1981 64.46121685
1982 64.91867385
1983 65.34339223
1984 65.69286951
1985 66.08781395
1986 66.57663723
1987 66.89740094
1988 67.12298357
1989 67.39447789
1990 67.57750086
1991 67.76579926
1992 68.07100759
1993 68.29648868
1994 68.5571316
1995 68.91574889
1996 69.23604736
1997 69.62048622
1998 70.0040119
1999 70.13857627
2000 70.46693564
2001 70.95149959
2002 71.21856038
2003 71.47192723
2004 71.61661372
2005 72.08148899
2006 72.46592177
2007 72.74534103
2008 72.9373872
2009 73.35987923
2010 73.60641426
2011 73.9149013
2012 74.22321623
2013 74.51647766
2014 74.77740401
2015 74.99421297
2016 75.17986183
2017 75.35255787
2018 75.72575526
2019 75.94562363
2020 75.13900352
2021 74.69315759
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Upper middle income | 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. 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
Upper middle income
Records
63
Source