Cambodia - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Cambodia was 67.75 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 67.75 in 2020 and a minimum value of 16.29 in 1977.

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 39.61
1961 39.71
1962 39.84
1963 39.99
1964 40.15
1965 40.31
1966 40.47
1967 40.58
1968 40.55
1969 40.25
1970 39.32
1971 37.33
1972 34.19
1973 30.09
1974 25.40
1975 20.93
1976 17.66
1977 16.29
1978 17.16
1979 20.25
1980 25.12
1981 30.99
1982 36.85
1983 41.89
1984 45.74
1985 48.26
1986 49.59
1987 50.23
1988 50.62
1989 50.92
1990 51.21
1991 51.55
1992 51.88
1993 52.19
1994 52.52
1995 52.91
1996 53.39
1997 53.96
1998 54.62
1999 55.36
2000 56.19
2001 57.08
2002 58.01
2003 58.94
2004 59.86
2005 60.74
2006 61.57
2007 62.34
2008 63.06
2009 63.72
2010 64.31
2011 64.84
2012 65.32
2013 65.74
2014 66.13
2015 66.47
2016 66.79
2017 67.06
2018 67.31
2019 67.54
2020 67.75

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