Belarus - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Belarus was 69.30 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 69.30 in 2020 and a minimum value of 62.20 in 1999.

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 65.03
1961 65.52
1962 65.91
1963 66.22
1964 66.45
1965 66.61
1966 66.72
1967 66.77
1968 66.77
1969 66.73
1970 66.67
1971 66.59
1972 66.51
1973 66.42
1974 66.33
1975 66.24
1976 66.13
1977 66.00
1978 65.86
1979 65.71
1980 65.58
1981 65.53
1982 65.56
1983 65.67
1984 65.85
1985 66.70
1986 67.33
1987 66.60
1988 67.00
1989 66.80
1990 66.30
1991 65.50
1992 64.90
1993 63.80
1994 63.50
1995 62.90
1996 63.00
1997 62.90
1998 62.70
1999 62.20
2000 63.40
2001 62.80
2002 62.30
2003 62.70
2004 63.20
2005 62.90
2006 63.60
2007 64.50
2008 64.70
2009 64.70
2010 64.60
2011 64.70
2012 66.60
2013 67.30
2014 67.80
2015 68.60
2016 68.90
2017 69.30
2018 69.20
2019 69.30
2020 69.30

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