Morocco - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Morocco was 75.65 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 75.65 in 2020 and a minimum value of 47.15 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 47.15
1961 47.71
1962 48.25
1963 48.77
1964 49.24
1965 49.68
1966 50.08
1967 50.46
1968 50.82
1969 51.19
1970 51.55
1971 51.91
1972 52.28
1973 52.65
1974 53.04
1975 53.46
1976 53.92
1977 54.43
1978 54.98
1979 55.59
1980 56.25
1981 56.95
1982 57.68
1983 58.43
1984 59.19
1985 59.93
1986 60.65
1987 61.33
1988 61.98
1989 62.58
1990 63.12
1991 63.60
1992 64.03
1993 64.42
1994 64.78
1995 65.13
1996 65.48
1997 65.83
1998 66.21
1999 66.63
2000 67.11
2001 67.65
2002 68.27
2003 68.93
2004 69.63
2005 70.34
2006 71.02
2007 71.64
2008 72.19
2009 72.66
2010 73.05
2011 73.37
2012 73.65
2013 73.91
2014 74.17
2015 74.43
2016 74.69
2017 74.95
2018 75.19
2019 75.42
2020 75.65

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