Ghana's life expectancy at birth is closest to which value?

• A. 68.2 years
• B. 69.7 years
• C. 71.5 years
• D. 65.9 years

Answer: (B)

Life expectancy at birth is the average number of years a newborn would live if current mortality rates stayed the same. It’s a broad indicator of a population’s health, reflecting child survival, infectious and chronic disease burden, nutrition, and how well the health system supports people throughout life.

In Ghana, improvements in health outcomes—such as better maternal care, higher immunization coverage, reduced malaria and HIV mortality, and overall better access to health services—have pushed life expectancy higher in recent years. The value that best aligns with those latest estimates is 69.7 years, which is why this option is the best choice. The other numbers are noticeably farther from the current trend: 68.2 and 71.5 sit a bit farther from the recent average, and 65.9 is lower than the contemporary figure tends to be.