Uganda - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Uganda was 61.32 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 61.32 in 2020 and a minimum value of 40.60 in 1995.

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 42.91
1961 43.50
1962 44.11
1963 44.72
1964 45.32
1965 45.89
1966 46.42
1967 46.89
1968 47.29
1969 47.62
1970 47.88
1971 48.06
1972 48.20
1973 48.29
1974 48.36
1975 48.42
1976 48.48
1977 48.54
1978 48.60
1979 48.63
1980 48.62
1981 48.52
1982 48.30
1983 47.96
1984 47.49
1985 46.90
1986 46.18
1987 45.38
1988 44.54
1989 43.71
1990 42.92
1991 42.19
1992 41.57
1993 41.07
1994 40.73
1995 40.60
1996 40.71
1997 41.05
1998 41.61
1999 42.38
2000 43.32
2001 44.42
2002 45.63
2003 46.89
2004 48.18
2005 49.45
2006 50.70
2007 51.93
2008 53.13
2009 54.27
2010 55.35
2011 56.33
2012 57.22
2013 58.02
2014 58.72
2015 59.32
2016 59.83
2017 60.27
2018 60.66
2019 61.00
2020 61.32

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