Côte d'Ivoire - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Côte d'Ivoire was 56.90 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 56.90 in 2020 and a minimum value of 35.65 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 35.65
1961 36.40
1962 37.13
1963 37.85
1964 38.54
1965 39.22
1966 39.90
1967 40.59
1968 41.29
1969 42.01
1970 42.75
1971 43.51
1972 44.28
1973 45.04
1974 45.78
1975 46.50
1976 47.18
1977 47.81
1978 48.40
1979 48.93
1980 49.42
1981 49.86
1982 50.26
1983 50.62
1984 50.94
1985 51.21
1986 51.43
1987 51.58
1988 51.66
1989 51.66
1990 51.57
1991 51.39
1992 51.12
1993 50.78
1994 50.38
1995 49.95
1996 49.50
1997 49.07
1998 48.67
1999 48.34
2000 48.11
2001 47.99
2002 47.98
2003 48.09
2004 48.32
2005 48.66
2006 49.12
2007 49.68
2008 50.31
2009 50.99
2010 51.69
2011 52.40
2012 53.09
2013 53.76
2014 54.38
2015 54.94
2016 55.43
2017 55.86
2018 56.25
2019 56.59
2020 56.90

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