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Life expectancy at birth

The number of years a newborn would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of birth stayed the same throughout its life.

Weighted average · not a median

First official point · 1960

50.9

years

Latest official point · 2024

73.5

years

Published World points

65

1960–2024

Gaps are years without a published World value. The line is not interpolated.

How this series is built

Population-weighted average. Not a median of countries.

World aggregate published by the World Bank World Development Indicators, sourced from the United Nations Population Division World Population Prospects and national statistical offices. Only years with a published World value are shown.

Source

Aggregate
Weighted average · not a median
Producer
UN DESA Population Division
Series
World Population Prospects
Series code
SP.DYN.LE00.IN
License
CC BY 4.0
Fetched
2026-08-17