Denmark - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Denmark was 79.60 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 79.60 in 2020 and a minimum value of 70.20 in 1965.

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 70.44
1961 70.57
1962 70.31
1963 70.42
1964 70.29
1965 70.20
1966 70.21
1967 70.61
1968 70.78
1969 70.86
1970 70.88
1971 70.80
1972 70.80
1973 70.97
1974 70.94
1975 71.28
1976 70.93
1977 71.73
1978 71.51
1979 71.19
1980 71.17
1981 71.25
1982 71.60
1983 71.44
1984 71.65
1985 71.53
1986 71.77
1987 71.74
1988 72.04
1989 71.99
1990 72.02
1991 72.47
1992 72.56
1993 72.59
1994 72.78
1995 72.72
1996 73.05
1997 73.55
1998 73.70
1999 74.00
2000 74.30
2001 74.50
2002 74.70
2003 74.90
2004 75.20
2005 75.60
2006 75.90
2007 76.00
2008 76.30
2009 76.50
2010 77.10
2011 77.80
2012 78.10
2013 78.30
2014 78.70
2015 78.80
2016 79.00
2017 79.20
2018 79.10
2019 79.50
2020 79.60

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