Cabo Verde - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Cabo Verde was 69.72 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 69.72 in 2020 and a minimum value of 47.24 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 47.24
1961 47.42
1962 47.68
1963 48.04
1964 48.49
1965 49.01
1966 49.57
1967 50.15
1968 50.71
1969 51.26
1970 51.83
1971 52.47
1972 53.22
1973 54.07
1974 55.02
1975 56.00
1976 56.97
1977 57.85
1978 58.60
1979 59.21
1980 59.68
1981 60.04
1982 60.34
1983 60.63
1984 60.92
1985 61.24
1986 61.58
1987 61.93
1988 62.28
1989 62.62
1990 62.94
1991 63.24
1992 63.50
1993 63.72
1994 63.91
1995 64.10
1996 64.29
1997 64.51
1998 64.76
1999 65.05
2000 65.35
2001 65.65
2002 65.92
2003 66.14
2004 66.33
2005 66.47
2006 66.60
2007 66.73
2008 66.88
2009 67.06
2010 67.27
2011 67.51
2012 67.77
2013 68.05
2014 68.32
2015 68.59
2016 68.85
2017 69.09
2018 69.32
2019 69.53
2020 69.72

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