Central Europe and the Baltics - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Central Europe and the Baltics was 72.44 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 73.70 in 2019 and a minimum value of 65.41 in 1960.

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 65.41
1961 65.77
1962 65.49
1963 66.12
1964 66.47
1965 66.66
1966 66.84
1967 66.49
1968 66.64
1969 66.32
1970 66.47
1971 66.37
1972 66.88
1973 66.96
1974 67.25
1975 67.00
1976 67.08
1977 66.91
1978 66.77
1979 66.79
1980 66.34
1981 66.82
1982 66.90
1983 66.75
1984 66.67
1985 66.63
1986 66.92
1987 66.93
1988 67.16
1989 66.92
1990 66.70
1991 66.57
1992 66.66
1993 66.77
1994 66.74
1995 66.88
1996 67.30
1997 67.50
1998 67.91
1999 68.22
2000 68.86
2001 69.26
2002 69.35
2003 69.50
2004 69.85
2005 69.94
2006 70.19
2007 70.39
2008 70.73
2009 71.11
2010 71.50
2011 72.08
2012 72.25
2013 72.70
2014 73.03
2015 72.96
2016 73.31
2017 73.37
2018 73.36
2019 73.70
2020 72.44

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