The average number of years a newborn baby is expected to live if mortality patterns at the time of its birth were to prevail throughout the child's life. Disaggregated by gender.

Life expectancy is the average number of years of life remaining to a person at a particular age based on a given set of age-specific death rates, generally the mortality conditions existing in the period mentioned.

Adapted from World Health Organization. A Glossary of terms for community health care and services for older persons. Internet. Accessed on July 6, 2016.