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

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Guinea-Bissau was 56.62 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 56.62 in 2020 and a minimum value of 35.69 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 35.69
1961 35.95
1962 36.22
1963 36.50
1964 36.80
1965 37.11
1966 37.44
1967 37.76
1968 38.09
1969 38.41
1970 38.72
1971 39.03
1972 39.34
1973 39.65
1974 39.95
1975 40.25
1976 40.55
1977 40.85
1978 41.14
1979 41.43
1980 41.71
1981 41.97
1982 42.23
1983 42.48
1984 42.71
1985 42.94
1986 43.18
1987 43.41
1988 43.66
1989 43.92
1990 44.18
1991 44.46
1992 44.73
1993 45.01
1994 45.29
1995 45.59
1996 45.92
1997 46.29
1998 46.69
1999 47.12
2000 47.58
2001 48.06
2002 48.52
2003 48.98
2004 49.42
2005 49.86
2006 50.29
2007 50.74
2008 51.22
2009 51.72
2010 52.23
2011 52.76
2012 53.29
2013 53.80
2014 54.30
2015 54.77
2016 55.20
2017 55.60
2018 55.97
2019 56.31
2020 56.62

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