Sao Tome and Principe · Life Expectancy at Birth (WHO)

71.2 years2021

Unit: years. Publisher measure: Life expectancy at birth (years).

Life expectancy at birth for the country population, both sexes, under the mortality rates of the reference year.

Measurement basis: WHO modelled period life-table estimates based on sex- and age-specific mortality.

Reference-period cadence: annual.

Source update cadence: biennial. This does not establish a publication date for an individual reading.

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World Health Organization (Global Health Observatory); retrieved 2026-09-07. Retrieval time is separate from an official publisher release vintage.

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Reported estimates and uncertainty · 22 rows

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Reported estimates and independently qualified uncertainty endpoints
CountryYearReadingLower endpointUpper endpointPublisher note
Sao Tome and Principe200063.1286726462.4799752464.04114165
Sao Tome and Principe200163.9332497263.2974083264.56326507
Sao Tome and Principe200264.6536623163.9924098965.28930921
Sao Tome and Principe200365.2304093364.6795968165.91918
Sao Tome and Principe200465.7100867265.2473444766.45721796
Sao Tome and Principe200566.2728319265.7219621666.88793384
Sao Tome and Principe200666.78475766.2594718967.29256176
Sao Tome and Principe200767.2279863366.7085627667.78732177
Sao Tome and Principe200867.6882791467.1522852768.25093566
Sao Tome and Principe200968.3980280367.8902794368.91259754
Sao Tome and Principe201068.8176937968.2610728669.37276231
Sao Tome and Principe201169.1990460768.7574724769.75153362
Sao Tome and Principe201269.5376659568.9780027970.17853402
Sao Tome and Principe201369.9483644169.4039390270.55703272
Sao Tome and Principe201470.2636753269.8399812870.86172357
Sao Tome and Principe201570.5568714670.0898553671.24597595
Sao Tome and Principe201670.8969936470.423283471.44271232
Sao Tome and Principe201771.2561544270.7280262471.78878254
Sao Tome and Principe201871.440398670.788239871.9690627
Sao Tome and Principe201971.6556851571.1511065972.20985885
Sao Tome and Principe202071.2524421470.7125577471.76667963
Sao Tome and Principe202171.1781089670.7288051271.74063461

One row per country, indicator and year, with raw values, source links and reuse notices. Thresholds have an empty numeric value and separate number/operator fields; value_kind distinguishes upper bounds from absent readings.