South Sudan - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in South Sudan was 56.59 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 56.59 in 2020 and a minimum value of 30.37 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 30.37
1961 30.80
1962 31.22
1963 31.64
1964 32.06
1965 32.49
1966 32.90
1967 33.31
1968 33.70
1969 34.08
1970 34.45
1971 34.83
1972 35.21
1973 35.61
1974 36.00
1975 36.38
1976 36.73
1977 37.02
1978 37.27
1979 37.46
1980 37.64
1981 37.82
1982 38.02
1983 38.29
1984 38.62
1985 39.04
1986 39.55
1987 40.13
1988 40.77
1989 41.45
1990 42.15
1991 42.86
1992 43.57
1993 44.26
1994 44.91
1995 45.52
1996 46.08
1997 46.59
1998 47.06
1999 47.51
2000 47.96
2001 48.42
2002 48.91
2003 49.45
2004 50.02
2005 50.63
2006 51.26
2007 51.89
2008 52.49
2009 53.06
2010 53.58
2011 54.03
2012 54.44
2013 54.79
2014 55.11
2015 55.39
2016 55.64
2017 55.88
2018 56.12
2019 56.35
2020 56.59

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