Burkina Faso - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Burkina Faso was 61.12 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 61.12 in 2020 and a minimum value of 33.45 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 33.45
1961 33.90
1962 34.36
1963 34.83
1964 35.30
1965 35.77
1966 36.23
1967 36.68
1968 37.12
1969 37.55
1970 37.97
1971 38.40
1972 38.84
1973 39.31
1974 39.83
1975 40.42
1976 41.13
1977 41.94
1978 42.85
1979 43.83
1980 44.82
1981 45.76
1982 46.60
1983 47.28
1984 47.80
1985 48.14
1986 48.32
1987 48.38
1988 48.38
1989 48.34
1990 48.27
1991 48.20
1992 48.12
1993 48.05
1994 48.01
1995 48.01
1996 48.08
1997 48.22
1998 48.43
1999 48.73
2000 49.12
2001 49.61
2002 50.21
2003 50.89
2004 51.64
2005 52.44
2006 53.27
2007 54.10
2008 54.92
2009 55.71
2010 56.44
2011 57.11
2012 57.71
2013 58.25
2014 58.74
2015 59.18
2016 59.59
2017 59.98
2018 60.36
2019 60.74
2020 61.12

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