Qatar - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Qatar was 79.31 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 79.31 in 2020 and a minimum value of 59.21 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 59.21
1961 60.05
1962 60.89
1963 61.73
1964 62.56
1965 63.38
1966 64.17
1967 64.92
1968 65.62
1969 66.28
1970 66.88
1971 67.46
1972 68.00
1973 68.53
1974 69.05
1975 69.55
1976 70.05
1977 70.53
1978 70.98
1979 71.41
1980 71.82
1981 72.21
1982 72.58
1983 72.93
1984 73.27
1985 73.59
1986 73.89
1987 74.18
1988 74.45
1989 74.71
1990 74.95
1991 75.17
1992 75.37
1993 75.55
1994 75.72
1995 75.87
1996 76.01
1997 76.15
1998 76.27
1999 76.40
2000 76.53
2001 76.66
2002 76.79
2003 76.93
2004 77.07
2005 77.22
2006 77.37
2007 77.51
2008 77.66
2009 77.80
2010 77.93
2011 78.06
2012 78.19
2013 78.31
2014 78.43
2015 78.56
2016 78.69
2017 78.83
2018 78.98
2019 79.14
2020 79.31

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