{
  "id": "hea-lifeexp-087",
  "question": "How long can a newborn in India expect to live?",
  "topic": "Health",
  "unit": "years",
  "decimals": 1,
  "measures": "Life expectancy at birth: the average number of years a newborn would live at the death rates of the period, from the Sample Registration System's abridged life tables, published by the Registrar General of India. Each estimate covers a five-year period, so successive periods overlap by four years and change slowly.",
  "verified": true,
  "source": {
    "name": "Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India, SRS-based Abridged Life Tables 2020-24",
    "url": "https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/47148",
    "table": "SRS Abridged Life Tables 2020-24, Statement 1 (expectation of life at birth, India, Total, 1970-75 to 2020-24); executive summary",
    "licence": "GODL-India"
  },
  "released": "2026-05-20",
  "retrieved": "2026-10-20",
  "nextDueBy": "2027-07-19",
  "processing": "Copied as published.",
  "exam": {
    "publisher": "Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India (Ministry of Home Affairs)",
    "survey": "SRS-based Abridged Life Tables 2020-24",
    "frequency": "Annual, each for a five-year period (the series starts with 1970-75)",
    "measures": "Expectation of life at birth (e0), in years, total, both sexes",
    "notes": [
      "Life tables are built from the deaths recorded by the Sample Registration System and are given for India and bigger states, by sex and residence.",
      "In 2020-24 life expectancy at age 60 was 18.6 years (17.5 for men, 19.8 for women)."
    ]
  },
  "targets": [],
  "values": [
    {
      "period": "2010-14",
      "start": "2010",
      "end": "2014",
      "value": 67.9
    },
    {
      "period": "2011-15",
      "start": "2011",
      "end": "2015",
      "value": 68.3
    },
    {
      "period": "2012-16",
      "start": "2012",
      "end": "2016",
      "value": 68.7
    },
    {
      "period": "2013-17",
      "start": "2013",
      "end": "2017",
      "value": 69
    },
    {
      "period": "2014-18",
      "start": "2014",
      "end": "2018",
      "value": 69.4
    },
    {
      "period": "2015-19",
      "start": "2015",
      "end": "2019",
      "value": 69.7
    },
    {
      "period": "2016-20",
      "start": "2016",
      "end": "2020",
      "value": 70
    },
    {
      "period": "2017-21",
      "start": "2017",
      "end": "2021",
      "value": 69.8
    },
    {
      "period": "2018-22",
      "start": "2018",
      "end": "2022",
      "value": 69.9
    },
    {
      "period": "2019-23",
      "start": "2019",
      "end": "2023",
      "value": 70.3
    },
    {
      "period": "2020-24",
      "start": "2020",
      "end": "2024",
      "value": 70.6
    }
  ],
  "page": "https://india.tf/c/hea-lifeexp-087/",
  "csv": "https://india.tf/c/hea-lifeexp-087/data.csv",
  "versions": "https://india.tf/c/hea-lifeexp-087/versions.csv"
}