Myanmar - Life expectancy at birth, total (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, total (years) in Myanmar was 67.36 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 67.36 in 2020 and a minimum value of 42.38 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, or derived from male and female life expectancy at birth from sources such as: (2) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (3)

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Year Value
1960 42.38
1961 42.96
1962 43.57
1963 44.22
1964 44.91
1965 45.63
1966 46.36
1967 47.06
1968 47.70
1969 48.28
1970 48.80
1971 49.26
1972 49.69
1973 50.10
1974 50.50
1975 50.91
1976 51.31
1977 51.71
1978 52.11
1979 52.51
1980 52.91
1981 53.32
1982 53.73
1983 54.14
1984 54.56
1985 54.97
1986 55.38
1987 55.77
1988 56.14
1989 56.51
1990 56.85
1991 57.18
1992 57.50
1993 57.82
1994 58.14
1995 58.46
1996 58.78
1997 59.10
1998 59.42
1999 59.74
2000 60.06
2001 60.38
2002 60.69
2003 60.99
2004 61.29
2005 61.61
2006 61.94
2007 62.29
2008 62.68
2009 63.09
2010 63.53
2011 63.98
2012 64.45
2013 64.92
2014 65.38
2015 65.81
2016 66.21
2017 66.56
2018 66.87
2019 67.13
2020 67.36

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