Belize - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Belize was 71.76 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 71.76 in 2020 and a minimum value of 58.66 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 58.66
1961 59.22
1962 59.81
1963 60.41
1964 61.02
1965 61.63
1966 62.24
1967 62.83
1968 63.40
1969 63.93
1970 64.42
1971 64.86
1972 65.26
1973 65.62
1974 65.94
1975 66.25
1976 66.55
1977 66.84
1978 67.15
1979 67.46
1980 67.78
1981 68.11
1982 68.44
1983 68.74
1984 69.01
1985 69.23
1986 69.37
1987 69.43
1988 69.41
1989 69.30
1990 69.09
1991 68.77
1992 68.37
1993 67.91
1994 67.43
1995 66.97
1996 66.59
1997 66.31
1998 66.15
1999 66.13
2000 66.23
2001 66.40
2002 66.62
2003 66.84
2004 67.06
2005 67.30
2006 67.60
2007 67.99
2008 68.46
2009 69.01
2010 69.59
2011 70.15
2012 70.64
2013 71.01
2014 71.27
2015 71.42
2016 71.50
2017 71.53
2018 71.58
2019 71.65
2020 71.76

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