Zimbabwe · Life Expectancy at Birth (WHO)

58.5 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
Zimbabwe200045.7452900144.1445189147.62590071
Zimbabwe200145.4321297544.0760252847.01135662
Zimbabwe200245.1125000743.6408554846.48511136
Zimbabwe200345.0127456343.7696314646.43322005
Zimbabwe200445.15285443.915067546.48876145
Zimbabwe200545.706536244.5963663346.91923224
Zimbabwe200646.4091518845.3715376247.44520919
Zimbabwe200747.3490263746.4045196248.27331373
Zimbabwe200848.3268854147.3453694349.39708884
Zimbabwe200949.6600000548.7395064850.55302352
Zimbabwe201051.4178324550.6348803752.3593172
Zimbabwe201153.2775504252.4374042354.27157811
Zimbabwe201254.9017494354.1498128455.75047594
Zimbabwe201356.0836480855.2126129657.00878854
Zimbabwe201456.9571740256.1384163757.77298263
Zimbabwe201557.493447656.6539435158.52965006
Zimbabwe201657.917843457.01069358.86056646
Zimbabwe201758.2386362457.4529941959.35242356
Zimbabwe201858.6983668457.8368323159.89466914
Zimbabwe201959.0717199758.1386540260.12749063
Zimbabwe202059.4047625558.5819695560.23278007
Zimbabwe202158.4810223857.7793956359.3735111

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.