Guinea - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Guinea was 61.18 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 61.18 in 2020 and a minimum value of 33.76 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 33.76
1961 33.97
1962 34.16
1963 34.33
1964 34.50
1965 34.66
1966 34.81
1967 34.96
1968 35.12
1969 35.29
1970 35.50
1971 35.76
1972 36.06
1973 36.42
1974 36.83
1975 37.29
1976 37.80
1977 38.33
1978 38.88
1979 39.46
1980 40.09
1981 40.78
1982 41.56
1983 42.41
1984 43.33
1985 44.30
1986 45.31
1987 46.31
1988 47.28
1989 48.19
1990 48.99
1991 49.68
1992 50.25
1993 50.70
1994 51.03
1995 51.25
1996 51.34
1997 51.34
1998 51.28
1999 51.21
2000 51.17
2001 51.22
2002 51.39
2003 51.69
2004 52.13
2005 52.69
2006 53.35
2007 54.04
2008 54.73
2009 55.39
2010 56.02
2011 56.62
2012 57.22
2013 57.82
2014 58.42
2015 59.00
2016 59.55
2017 60.04
2018 60.48
2019 60.86
2020 61.18

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