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Algeria |
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Angola |
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Benin |
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Botswana |
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Burkina Faso |
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Burundi |
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Cameroon |
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Cape Verde |
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Central African Republic |
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Chad |
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Comoros |
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Congo |
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Côte d’Ivoire |
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Djibouti |
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DRC |
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Egypt |
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Equatorial Guinea |
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Eritrea |
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Eswatini |
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Ethiopia |
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Gabon |
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Gambia |
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Ghana |
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Guinea |
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Guinea-Bissau |
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Kenya |
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Lesotho |
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Liberia |
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Libya |
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Madagascar |
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Malawi |
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Mali |
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Mauritania |
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Mauritius |
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Morocco |
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Mozambique |
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Namibia |
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Niger |
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Nigeria |
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Rwanda |
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SADR |
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São Tomé and Príncipe |
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Senegal |
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Seychelles |
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Sierra Leone |
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Somalia |
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South Africa |
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South Sudan |
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Sudan |
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Tanzania |
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Togo |
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Tunisia |
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Uganda |
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Zambia |
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Zimbabwe |
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Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health |
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Life expectancy at birth |
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Maternal mortality ratio |
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Stillbirth rate |
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Neonatal mortality rate |
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Infant mortality rate |
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Under 5 mortality rate |
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Antenatal care coverage: 4+ visits |
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Antenatal care coverage: 8+ visits |
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Births attended by skilled health personnel |
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Postpartum care coverage for mothers |
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Postnatal care coverage for newborns |
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Exclusive breastfeeding for infants under 6 months |
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Coverage of first dose of measles vaccination |
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Stunting - short height for age under age 5 |
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Wasting – low weight for height under age 5 |
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Overweight - heavy for height under 5 |
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Sexual and Reproductive Health |
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Child marriage before age 15 |
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Child marriage before age 18 |
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Female genital mutilation |
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Sexual violence by age 18 - female |
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Sexual violence by age 18 - male |
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Very early child bearing under age 16 |
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Adolescent birth rate ages 15 to 19 |
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Contraceptive prevalance rate, modern methods, all women |
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Demand satisfied for modern contraception |
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Communicable Diseases |
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New HIV infections |
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Antiretroviral treatment coverage |
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Preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV |
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Condom use |
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New TB infections |
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New malaria infections |
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Non-Communicable Diseases |
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Mortality from non-communicable diseases |
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Suicide mortality rate |
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Current tobacco use among females aged 15 and over |
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Current tobacco use among males aged 15 and over |
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Harmful alcohol use aged 15 and over |
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Health Financing |
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External health expenditure as % current health expenditure |
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Government health expenditure as % current health expenditure |
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Government health expenditure as % GDP |
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Government health expenditure as % general govt expenditure |
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Government health expenditure per capita |
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Out-of-pocket health expenditure as % of current health expenditure |
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Percentage of national health budget allocated for reproductive health |
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Health systems and policies |
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Density of health workers - physicians |
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Density of health workers - nurses and midwives |
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Density of health workers - pharmaceutical staff |
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Qualified obstetricians |
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Birth registration |
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At least basic drinking water |
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At least basic sanitation services |
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Open defecation |
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Implementation of AMRH Initiative |
| Full Name: | Life expectancy at birth |
| Full Unit: | Age, years |
| Year-range of Data: | 2016 |
| Source: | WHO Global Health Observatory data repository |
| Link to Source: | http://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.main.688 |
| Date Source Published: | 6th April 2018 |
| Date Source Accessed: | 18th January 2019 |
| Target Source: | Proposal cited by WHO, 2016 |
| Link to Target: | https://www.who.int/gho/publications/world_health_statistics/2016/en/ |
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The following countries had no data: |
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The target is taken from the target source as shown in the table on the left. This is the internationally agreed target for this indicator and country. Most targets are the same for all countries, but some may have different values for each country. Some indicators have no internationally agreed targets. The threshold is taken from the same source where available. The threshold is an easier value than the target but shows good progress in achieving the target. For more details, go to ‘Find out more about indicator and sources’ via the Indicators page. |
Life expectancy at birth is the number of years on average that a newborn could expect to live if they were to go through life exposed to the sex- and age-specific death rates that prevail at the time of their birth. This relates to a specific year and in a specific country, territory or geographical area.
Life expectancy at birth is a reflection of the overall mortality level of a given population. It gives a summary of the mortality pattern that prevails across all age groups, children, adolescents, adults and elderly.
The preferred data source for this indicator is civil registration with high coverage. For countries with no such data, other possible data sources are household surveys, population censuses and sample registration systems.
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More about indicator and sources
Interpolated data for single years are also available from UN DESA/Population Division, World Population Prospects 2017, available at https://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/Download/Standard/Interpolated/
There is a proposal for a measure of premature mortality with a target of reducing the number of deaths before age 70 by 40% by 2030 globally and in every country. This proposed target is shown here and taken from the WHO 2016 report, 'Monitoring the health goal - Indicators of overall progress', available from this URL: https://www.who.int/gho/publications/world_health_statistics/2016/en/
More information on calculations
Life expectancy at birth is derived from life tables based on sex- and age-specific death rates. Life tables are a set of tabulations describing the probability of dying, the death rate and the number of survivors for each age or for each age group. The United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN-IGME) estimates of neonatal, infant and under-five mortality rates are used. Three basic methods were used depending on the quality and availability of data.
For more information, visit: http://www.who.int/healthinfo/indicators/2015/chi_2015_24_life_expectancy.pdf?ua=1
