Senegal - Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Senegal was 70.20 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 70.20 in 2020 and a minimum value of 38.98 in 1960.

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 38.98
1961 39.15
1962 39.24
1963 39.27
1964 39.26
1965 39.23
1966 39.22
1967 39.28
1968 39.43
1969 39.71
1970 40.14
1971 40.76
1972 41.53
1973 42.45
1974 43.48
1975 44.60
1976 45.76
1977 46.93
1978 48.07
1979 49.17
1980 50.23
1981 51.27
1982 52.31
1983 53.36
1984 54.40
1985 55.41
1986 56.34
1987 57.17
1988 57.87
1989 58.42
1990 58.82
1991 59.05
1992 59.14
1993 59.13
1994 59.06
1995 58.97
1996 58.90
1997 58.87
1998 58.93
1999 59.09
2000 59.37
2001 59.76
2002 60.25
2003 60.81
2004 61.43
2005 62.09
2006 62.81
2007 63.55
2008 64.32
2009 65.09
2010 65.83
2011 66.52
2012 67.15
2013 67.72
2014 68.21
2015 68.63
2016 69.00
2017 69.32
2018 69.63
2019 69.92
2020 70.20

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