Comoros - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Comoros was 62.78 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 62.78 in 2020 and a minimum value of 39.96 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 39.96
1961 40.36
1962 40.77
1963 41.18
1964 41.58
1965 41.99
1966 42.39
1967 42.80
1968 43.21
1969 43.64
1970 44.06
1971 44.49
1972 44.91
1973 45.33
1974 45.76
1975 46.20
1976 46.68
1977 47.20
1978 47.76
1979 48.36
1980 49.00
1981 49.66
1982 50.33
1983 50.99
1984 51.64
1985 52.27
1986 52.87
1987 53.46
1988 54.04
1989 54.59
1990 55.12
1991 55.61
1992 56.07
1993 56.49
1994 56.87
1995 57.18
1996 57.43
1997 57.62
1998 57.75
1999 57.83
2000 57.90
2001 57.96
2002 58.04
2003 58.15
2004 58.32
2005 58.54
2006 58.83
2007 59.15
2008 59.51
2009 59.89
2010 60.27
2011 60.64
2012 60.98
2013 61.29
2014 61.56
2015 61.80
2016 62.02
2017 62.21
2018 62.40
2019 62.59
2020 62.78

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