Life Expectancy at Birth in Bosnia and Herzegovina: 1800 to Today (and Tomorrow)

At MYRIAD, we explore the statistics of human lives to understand what time and place mean for our shared existence. For Bosnia and Herzegovina, we track how many years a newborn could expect to live, given the mortality of the time and place. Every value is a statistical fact about the lives actually lived there across three centuries.

The historical arc moves steadily upward decade by decade. In the 1800s estimate it was 34 years, climbing through the 1810s estimate 34.9, the 1820s estimate 35.8, the 1830s estimate 36.7, the 1840s estimate 37.6, the 1850s estimate 38.5, the 1860s estimate 39.4, the 1870s estimate 40.3, the 1880s estimate 41.2, and the 1890s estimate 42.1. By 1900 it was 43 years, continuing into the 1900s estimate 43, the 1910s estimate 47.2, the 1920s estimate 51.4, the 1930s estimate 55.6, the 1940s estimate 59.8, the 1950s 64, the 1960s 66.67, the 1970s 69.33, the 1980s 72, the 1990s 73.5, the 2000s 75, the 2010s 77, and reaching the 2020s 79 years where it stands ranking #31 of 157 countries. Looking forward, projections anticipate the 2030s projection 80.2, the 2040s projection 81.4, the 2050s projection 82.6, the 2060s projection 83.8, the 2070s projection 85, the 2080s projection 86.2, the 2090s projection 87.4, and the 2100s projection 88.6.

For someone born in these changing eras, the horizon of a lifetime expanded profoundly over generations. Where do YOU rank among everyone ever born? →