Botswana - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Botswana was 66.67 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 66.67 in 2020 and a minimum value of 46.31 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 46.31
1961 46.79
1962 47.25
1963 47.69
1964 48.11
1965 48.52
1966 48.93
1967 49.34
1968 49.77
1969 50.21
1970 50.67
1971 51.16
1972 51.68
1973 52.21
1974 52.76
1975 53.31
1976 53.86
1977 54.41
1978 54.93
1979 55.42
1980 55.88
1981 56.32
1982 56.74
1983 57.11
1984 57.42
1985 57.60
1986 57.58
1987 57.32
1988 56.84
1989 56.14
1990 55.28
1991 54.33
1992 53.38
1993 52.50
1994 51.72
1995 51.04
1996 50.42
1997 49.82
1998 49.22
1999 48.66
2000 48.21
2001 47.97
2002 48.00
2003 48.33
2004 49.00
2005 49.98
2006 51.27
2007 52.78
2008 54.42
2009 56.12
2010 57.80
2011 59.41
2012 60.92
2013 62.28
2014 63.47
2015 64.46
2016 65.22
2017 65.79
2018 66.20
2019 66.49
2020 66.67

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