Singapore - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Singapore was 81.50 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 81.50 in 2020 and a minimum value of 62.29 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 62.29
1961 62.76
1962 63.14
1963 63.45
1964 63.70
1965 63.90
1966 64.07
1967 64.26
1968 64.46
1969 64.71
1970 65.02
1971 65.37
1972 65.76
1973 66.17
1974 66.61
1975 67.05
1976 67.49
1977 67.94
1978 68.38
1979 68.81
1980 69.80
1981 70.10
1982 70.20
1983 70.50
1984 70.90
1985 71.50
1986 72.10
1987 72.50
1988 72.60
1989 72.80
1990 73.10
1991 73.50
1992 73.80
1993 73.90
1994 74.10
1995 74.10
1996 74.40
1997 74.80
1998 75.30
1999 75.60
2000 76.00
2001 76.30
2002 76.60
2003 76.60
2004 77.10
2005 77.60
2006 77.80
2007 78.10
2008 78.40
2009 78.90
2010 79.20
2011 79.50
2012 79.80
2013 80.10
2014 80.30
2015 80.50
2016 80.70
2017 80.90
2018 81.20
2019 81.40
2020 81.50

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