Afghanistan - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Afghanistan was 63.71 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 63.71 in 2020 and a minimum value of 31.72 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 31.72
1961 32.22
1962 32.72
1963 33.22
1964 33.70
1965 34.18
1966 34.66
1967 35.13
1968 35.62
1969 36.11
1970 36.61
1971 37.12
1972 37.64
1973 38.18
1974 38.73
1975 39.29
1976 39.87
1977 40.47
1978 41.09
1979 41.72
1980 42.37
1981 43.04
1982 43.72
1983 44.40
1984 45.10
1985 45.80
1986 46.50
1987 47.20
1988 47.91
1989 48.60
1990 49.28
1991 49.94
1992 50.57
1993 51.17
1994 51.75
1995 52.29
1996 52.80
1997 53.29
1998 53.75
1999 54.21
2000 54.66
2001 55.12
2002 55.58
2003 56.06
2004 56.54
2005 57.04
2006 57.56
2007 58.09
2008 58.63
2009 59.16
2010 59.68
2011 60.19
2012 60.68
2013 61.13
2014 61.56
2015 61.97
2016 62.34
2017 62.70
2018 63.05
2019 63.38
2020 63.71

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