The mid-year estimate of the total number of individuals in a country. An estimate of the average number of years a newborn can expect to live.
Life expectancy is computed from age-specific death rates for a given year.
It should be noted that low life expectancies in developing countries are, in large part, due to high infant mortality. An estimate of the number of births occurring in a given year. An estimate of the number of deaths occurring to children under age one in a given year. GDP PPP is gross domestic product converted to international dollars using purchasing power parity rates. An international dollar has the same purchasing power over GDP as the U.S. dollar in the United States.