Bangladesh - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Bangladesh was 71.13 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 71.13 in 2020 and a minimum value of 46.08 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 46.08
1961 46.67
1962 47.26
1963 47.83
1964 48.34
1965 48.74
1966 48.92
1967 48.87
1968 48.59
1969 48.15
1970 47.68
1971 47.34
1972 47.26
1973 47.51
1974 48.11
1975 48.99
1976 50.04
1977 51.09
1978 52.02
1979 52.79
1980 53.38
1981 53.82
1982 54.20
1983 54.60
1984 55.02
1985 55.49
1986 56.00
1987 56.53
1988 57.08
1989 57.63
1990 58.22
1991 58.84
1992 59.52
1993 60.24
1994 61.00
1995 61.77
1996 62.52
1997 63.23
1998 63.88
1999 64.46
2000 64.96
2001 65.41
2002 65.82
2003 66.20
2004 66.58
2005 66.95
2006 67.32
2007 67.68
2008 68.03
2009 68.37
2010 68.69
2011 69.00
2012 69.27
2013 69.53
2014 69.76
2015 69.98
2016 70.19
2017 70.41
2018 70.64
2019 70.88
2020 71.13

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