Djibouti - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Djibouti was 65.47 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 65.47 in 2020 and a minimum value of 42.73 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 42.73
1961 43.17
1962 43.59
1963 44.01
1964 44.43
1965 44.87
1966 45.35
1967 45.89
1968 46.48
1969 47.11
1970 47.76
1971 48.39
1972 48.98
1973 49.49
1974 49.93
1975 50.31
1976 50.65
1977 50.98
1978 51.34
1979 51.71
1980 52.11
1981 52.52
1982 52.93
1983 53.31
1984 53.66
1985 53.98
1986 54.27
1987 54.52
1988 54.75
1989 54.96
1990 55.13
1991 55.26
1992 55.35
1993 55.41
1994 55.43
1995 55.43
1996 55.42
1997 55.40
1998 55.40
1999 55.42
2000 55.48
2001 55.60
2002 55.76
2003 55.98
2004 56.25
2005 56.57
2006 56.92
2007 57.29
2008 57.69
2009 58.13
2010 58.61
2011 59.19
2012 59.88
2013 60.66
2014 61.52
2015 62.40
2016 63.25
2017 64.00
2018 64.63
2019 65.12
2020 65.47

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