Brazil - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Brazil was 72.46 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 72.46 in 2020 and a minimum value of 52.26 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 52.26
1961 52.68
1962 53.10
1963 53.52
1964 53.94
1965 54.36
1966 54.78
1967 55.20
1968 55.61
1969 56.02
1970 56.42
1971 56.82
1972 57.21
1973 57.59
1974 57.96
1975 58.32
1976 58.67
1977 59.00
1978 59.32
1979 59.63
1980 59.92
1981 60.21
1982 60.50
1983 60.79
1984 61.08
1985 61.38
1986 61.69
1987 62.02
1988 62.36
1989 62.71
1990 63.07
1991 63.43
1992 63.78
1993 64.14
1994 64.48
1995 64.82
1996 65.15
1997 65.47
1998 65.78
1999 66.10
2000 66.42
2001 66.75
2002 67.09
2003 67.44
2004 67.80
2005 68.17
2006 68.54
2007 68.91
2008 69.27
2009 69.62
2010 69.95
2011 70.27
2012 70.56
2013 70.84
2014 71.10
2015 71.35
2016 71.58
2017 71.80
2018 72.02
2019 72.24
2020 72.46

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