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Life Tables for WHO Member States

 
Beginning with the year 1999, WHO began producing annual life tables for all Member States. These life tables have several uses and form the basis of all WHO's estimates about mortality patterns and levels world-wide. A key use of these life tables is in the construction of healthy life expectancy (HALE) which is the basic indicator of population health levels used by WHO. For the Wold Health Statistics 2008, comparable life tables for 1990, 2000 and 2006 were estimated.
 
Country:
(select one country by clicking on it, then a year, then click "GO!")
1990 2000 2006
 
 
For explanatory notes and details on methodology see the World Health Statistics 2006:
http://www.who.int/entity/whr/2006/annex/06_annex_notes_en.pdf
 
See also: Indicator definitions and metadata of life expectancy at birth:
http://www.who.int/entity/whosis/indicators/2007LEX0/en/index.html
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