Life expectancy
![Human life expectancy at birth, measured by region, between 1960 and 2045](/Images/godic/202501/24/Life_Expectancy_at_Birth_by_Region_1950-20504004.png")
![>80
77.5-80
75-77.5
72.5-75
70-72.5
67.5-70
65-67.5
60-65
55-60
50-55
45-50
40-45
<40](/Images/godic/202501/24/Esperanza_de_vida4004.PNG")
![Plot of life expectancy vs. GDP per capita in 2009. This particular phenomenon is known as the Preston curve.](/Images/godic/202501/24/LifeExpectancy_GDPperCapita4004.png")
![Graphs of life expectancy at birth for some sub-Saharan countries showing the fall in the 1990s primarily due to the AIDS pandemic.[35]](/Images/godic/202501/24/Comparison_subsaharan_life_expectancy.svg4004.png")
Life expectancy is a statistical measure of the average time an organism is expected to live, based on the year of their birth, their current age and other demographic factors including sex. The most commonly used measure of life expectancy is at birth (LEB), which can be defined in two ways: while cohort LEB is the mean length of life of an actual birth cohort (all individuals born a given year) and can be computed only for cohorts born many decades ago, so that all their members died, period LEB is the mean length of life of a hypothetical cohort assumed to be exposed since birth until death of all their members to the mortality rates observed at a given year.