Equatorial Guinea - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Equatorial Guinea was 58.06 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 58.06 in 2020 and a minimum value of 35.16 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 35.16
1961 35.49
1962 35.82
1963 36.15
1964 36.48
1965 36.80
1966 37.13
1967 37.45
1968 37.78
1969 38.11
1970 38.43
1971 38.74
1972 39.04
1973 39.32
1974 39.61
1975 39.93
1976 40.32
1977 40.79
1978 41.35
1979 41.99
1980 42.67
1981 43.36
1982 44.00
1983 44.57
1984 45.07
1985 45.48
1986 45.84
1987 46.18
1988 46.53
1989 46.90
1990 47.31
1991 47.76
1992 48.24
1993 48.73
1994 49.24
1995 49.75
1996 50.25
1997 50.74
1998 51.21
1999 51.64
2000 52.03
2001 52.37
2002 52.67
2003 52.93
2004 53.16
2005 53.37
2006 53.58
2007 53.78
2008 54.01
2009 54.26
2010 54.54
2011 54.86
2012 55.20
2013 55.56
2014 55.94
2015 56.32
2016 56.69
2017 57.06
2018 57.41
2019 57.74
2020 58.06

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