Central African Republic - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Central African Republic was 51.45 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 51.45 in 2020 and a minimum value of 34.81 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 34.81
1961 35.26
1962 35.71
1963 36.18
1964 36.67
1965 37.20
1966 37.78
1967 38.40
1968 39.06
1969 39.77
1970 40.51
1971 41.28
1972 42.06
1973 42.84
1974 43.60
1975 44.32
1976 45.00
1977 45.63
1978 46.20
1979 46.71
1980 47.13
1981 47.48
1982 47.74
1983 47.91
1984 48.01
1985 48.03
1986 47.97
1987 47.86
1988 47.69
1989 47.46
1990 47.17
1991 46.79
1992 46.33
1993 45.80
1994 45.22
1995 44.63
1996 44.06
1997 43.57
1998 43.16
1999 42.88
2000 42.73
2001 42.70
2002 42.79
2003 42.95
2004 43.19
2005 43.50
2006 43.87
2007 44.29
2008 44.76
2009 45.27
2010 45.82
2011 46.41
2012 47.03
2013 47.68
2014 48.34
2015 48.99
2016 49.59
2017 50.15
2018 50.65
2019 51.08
2020 51.45

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