Average life expectancy

Dátum poslednej aktualizácie:14.01.2022

Definícia indikátora

The indicator expresses the number of years to be lived by newborns given the conditions of retaining the same mortality rate that existed at the time of its calculation. 

Jednotka indikátora

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Metadáta

Methodology:

Selection and methodology of indicator’s assessment is based on the set of indicators proposed by the OECD and addressed by the report: "Green Growth: Monitoring progress towards green growth“. Data relating to the national situation are usually presented in the period between 2000 and 2012. Basic time sequence is changed in those cases when the data are not accessible or when their comparison is not possible due to differing approaches in their collection, assessment, changes in methodology, classification, etc.  Summary assessment of indicator’s trend from the green growth perspective is based on a subjective evaluation of the responsible assessor due to the fact that the strategy is not officially implemented in the Slovak Republic and therefore specific objectives have not been defined.  Naturally, this assessment builds on the analysis of the past trends, as well as their anticipated direction in view of the measures adopted as to date.
Selected indicators characterize Slovakia's initial position as seen from the perspective of the green growth and were to be used as a measuring tool before further steps are taken in the process of implementation of this strategy and for a complex assessment of the future trend of the Slovak economy.  Present set of green growth indicators comprises 32 individual indicators that are relevant in Slovakia's conditions. Four of them are national indicators that describe voluntary instruments of the environmental strategy.


Data sources:

Data used in this document come from the official national or international sources and databases.  Assessed trend was reviewed and discussed with the state administration specialists (individual departments of the ministries of Environment, Economy, Labour and Social Affairs and Family, Finance, Agriculture and Rural Development) and their professional organisations (Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute, State Geological Institute of Dionýz Štúr, Slovak Environmnet Agency, State Nature Consservancy, Institute for Financial Policy) and also the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic whose databases furnish most of the information.

 

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Kľúčové zistenia

Average life expectancy at birth is an important demographic indicator as well as a basic synthetic indicator of living conditions of the public and the mortality situation.

In 2020, the average life expectancy at birth for females was 80.17 years and the average life expectancy at birth for males was 73.47 years. Year-on-year, mean life expectancy in females decreased by 0.67 years and in men decreased by 0.84 years. Over the monitored 10 years, the mean life expectancy at birth in females increased by 1.33 years, in males by 1.85 years. An important trend is to reduce the difference in the mean life expectancy at birth between the sexes. In 2010, the gender gap was 7.22 years and dropped to 6.7 years in 2020.

 

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Medzinárodné porovnanie

The OECD Green Growth database contains selected indicators for monitoring progress towards green growth to support policy making and inform the public at large. The database provides a synthesis of data and indicators available across a wide range of domains. The sources of the underlying data used to populate the Green Growth Indicators, as presented here, include a range of OECD databases and, in some cases, external data sources. The database covers OECD member countries, accession countries and selected non-OECD countries (including the BRIICS economies - Brazil, Russian Federation, India, Indonesia, China and South Africa).


OECD Green Growth Indicators Database

Kontakt na spracovateľa

Ing. Katarína Škantárová, SAŽP, katarina.skantarova@sazp.sk