Bolivia - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Bolivia was 68.93 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 68.93 in 2020 and a minimum value of 40.52 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 40.52
1961 40.86
1962 41.21
1963 41.57
1964 41.94
1965 42.32
1966 42.71
1967 43.10
1968 43.51
1969 43.92
1970 44.34
1971 44.78
1972 45.22
1973 45.67
1974 46.13
1975 46.60
1976 47.08
1977 47.57
1978 48.06
1979 48.57
1980 49.08
1981 49.60
1982 50.13
1983 50.66
1984 51.21
1985 51.76
1986 52.32
1987 52.88
1988 53.45
1989 54.03
1990 54.61
1991 55.20
1992 55.80
1993 56.40
1994 57.01
1995 57.62
1996 58.23
1997 58.83
1998 59.43
1999 60.02
2000 60.59
2001 61.14
2002 61.68
2003 62.20
2004 62.70
2005 63.19
2006 63.68
2007 64.17
2008 64.66
2009 65.14
2010 65.62
2011 66.08
2012 66.51
2013 66.91
2014 67.27
2015 67.60
2016 67.90
2017 68.17
2018 68.43
2019 68.68
2020 68.93

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