Saudi Arabia - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Saudi Arabia was 74.08 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 74.08 in 2020 and a minimum value of 43.68 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 43.68
1961 44.19
1962 44.72
1963 45.26
1964 45.84
1965 46.47
1966 47.18
1967 47.96
1968 48.82
1969 49.76
1970 50.78
1971 51.86
1972 53.00
1973 54.15
1974 55.30
1975 56.43
1976 57.52
1977 58.56
1978 59.56
1979 60.48
1980 61.35
1981 62.16
1982 62.93
1983 63.65
1984 64.34
1985 65.00
1986 65.60
1987 66.16
1988 66.67
1989 67.13
1990 67.55
1991 67.95
1992 68.33
1993 68.70
1994 69.06
1995 69.42
1996 69.78
1997 70.12
1998 70.44
1999 70.74
2000 71.02
2001 71.25
2002 71.45
2003 71.62
2004 71.76
2005 71.88
2006 72.01
2007 72.14
2008 72.28
2009 72.45
2010 72.63
2011 72.81
2012 72.98
2013 73.15
2014 73.29
2015 73.43
2016 73.55
2017 73.67
2018 73.80
2019 73.94
2020 74.08

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