Algeria - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Algeria was 75.86 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 75.86 in 2020 and a minimum value of 45.44 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 45.44
1961 45.88
1962 46.33
1963 46.76
1964 47.20
1965 47.62
1966 48.02
1967 48.41
1968 48.78
1969 49.15
1970 49.53
1971 49.92
1972 50.34
1973 50.81
1974 51.35
1975 51.99
1976 52.75
1977 53.65
1978 54.67
1979 55.79
1980 56.98
1981 58.21
1982 59.43
1983 60.58
1984 61.65
1985 62.59
1986 63.39
1987 64.05
1988 64.60
1989 65.05
1990 65.41
1991 65.73
1992 66.03
1993 66.33
1994 66.66
1995 67.03
1996 67.44
1997 67.87
1998 68.32
1999 68.78
2000 69.25
2001 69.74
2002 70.25
2003 70.77
2004 71.28
2005 71.78
2006 72.26
2007 72.70
2008 73.10
2009 73.46
2010 73.77
2011 74.04
2012 74.28
2013 74.50
2014 74.71
2015 74.92
2016 75.12
2017 75.31
2018 75.49
2019 75.68
2020 75.86

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