Vanuatu - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Vanuatu was 69.11 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 69.11 in 2020 and a minimum value of 48.09 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 48.09
1961 48.61
1962 49.13
1963 49.65
1964 50.17
1965 50.69
1966 51.23
1967 51.77
1968 52.32
1969 52.87
1970 53.43
1971 53.99
1972 54.55
1973 55.10
1974 55.63
1975 56.17
1976 56.70
1977 57.24
1978 57.78
1979 58.34
1980 58.90
1981 59.46
1982 60.02
1983 60.58
1984 61.12
1985 61.64
1986 62.13
1987 62.60
1988 63.04
1989 63.44
1990 63.81
1991 64.14
1992 64.45
1993 64.72
1994 64.97
1995 65.20
1996 65.42
1997 65.62
1998 65.83
1999 66.02
2000 66.22
2001 66.40
2002 66.58
2003 66.74
2004 66.89
2005 67.02
2006 67.15
2007 67.27
2008 67.39
2009 67.51
2010 67.63
2011 67.77
2012 67.91
2013 68.06
2014 68.22
2015 68.38
2016 68.54
2017 68.70
2018 68.85
2019 68.99
2020 69.11

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