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Life Expectancy At Birth is…

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

Life expectancy at birth is how many years a newborn baby can expect to live if current mortality rates remain the same – i.e., if the people in a given country continue to die from disease, famine, war, or anything else at the same rates that they currently do. It’s used to demonstrate the general health conditions of a country or region.