Bulgaria - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Bulgaria was 69.90 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 71.60 in 2019 and a minimum value of 67.00 in 1997.

Definition: Life expectancy at birth indicates the number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life.

Source: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects: 2019 Revision. (2) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (3) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (4) United Nations Statistical Division. Popu

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Year Value
1960 67.55
1961 68.42
1962 67.77
1963 68.68
1964 69.37
1965 69.45
1966 69.36
1967 68.37
1968 69.23
1969 68.23
1970 69.11
1971 68.62
1972 68.68
1973 69.03
1974 68.93
1975 68.64
1976 68.99
1977 68.26
1978 68.77
1979 68.64
1980 68.46
1981 68.85
1982 68.43
1983 68.44
1984 68.49
1985 68.15
1986 68.56
1987 68.40
1988 68.38
1989 68.42
1990 68.30
1991 68.40
1992 68.07
1993 67.62
1994 67.36
1995 67.39
1996 67.39
1997 67.00
1998 67.50
1999 67.90
2000 68.20
2001 68.50
2002 68.50
2003 68.70
2004 69.10
2005 69.00
2006 69.10
2007 69.20
2008 69.50
2009 69.90
2010 70.00
2011 70.70
2012 70.90
2013 71.30
2014 71.10
2015 71.20
2016 71.30
2017 71.40
2018 71.50
2019 71.60
2020 69.90

Development Relevance: Mortality rates for different age groups (infants, children, and adults) and overall mortality indicators (life expectancy at birth or survival to a given age) are important indicators of health status in a country. Because data on the incidence and prevalence of diseases are frequently unavailable, mortality rates are often used to identify vulnerable populations. And they are among the indicators most frequently used to compare socioeconomic development across countries.

Limitations and Exceptions: Annual data series from United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects are interpolated data from 5-year period data. Therefore they may not reflect real events as much as observed data.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: Life expectancy at birth used here is the average number of years a newborn is expected to live if mortality patterns at the time of its birth remain constant in the future. It reflects the overall mortality level of a population, and summarizes the mortality pattern that prevails across all age groups in a given year. It is calculated in a period life table which provides a snapshot of a population's mortality pattern at a given time. It therefore does not reflect the mortality pattern that a person actually experiences during his/her life, which can be calculated in a cohort life table. High mortality in young age groups significantly lowers the life expectancy at birth. But if a person survives his/her childhood of high mortality, he/she may live much longer. For example, in a population with a life expectancy at birth of 50, there may be few people dying at age 50. The life expectancy at birth may be low due to the high childhood mortality so that once a person survives his/her childhood, he/she may live much longer than 50 years.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Mortality