Chad - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Chad was 53.09 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 53.09 in 2020 and a minimum value of 35.96 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 35.96
1961 36.30
1962 36.66
1963 37.01
1964 37.38
1965 37.76
1966 38.16
1967 38.60
1968 39.05
1969 39.53
1970 40.02
1971 40.50
1972 40.97
1973 41.40
1974 41.81
1975 42.18
1976 42.52
1977 42.82
1978 43.11
1979 43.39
1980 43.65
1981 43.92
1982 44.19
1983 44.47
1984 44.74
1985 45.00
1986 45.23
1987 45.43
1988 45.59
1989 45.71
1990 45.80
1991 45.87
1992 45.94
1993 46.01
1994 46.09
1995 46.19
1996 46.28
1997 46.35
1998 46.42
1999 46.47
2000 46.53
2001 46.61
2002 46.73
2003 46.89
2004 47.10
2005 47.38
2006 47.73
2007 48.14
2008 48.60
2009 49.10
2010 49.60
2011 50.11
2012 50.58
2013 51.01
2014 51.40
2015 51.74
2016 52.04
2017 52.32
2018 52.58
2019 52.84
2020 53.09

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