Congo - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Congo was 63.29 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 63.29 in 2020 and a minimum value of 43.25 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 43.25
1961 43.82
1962 44.37
1963 44.88
1964 45.37
1965 45.83
1966 46.28
1967 46.71
1968 47.13
1969 47.55
1970 47.96
1971 48.36
1972 48.74
1973 49.11
1974 49.46
1975 49.80
1976 50.13
1977 50.45
1978 50.76
1979 51.05
1980 51.33
1981 51.58
1982 51.80
1983 51.98
1984 52.11
1985 52.17
1986 52.17
1987 52.10
1988 51.96
1989 51.78
1990 51.54
1991 51.27
1992 50.97
1993 50.68
1994 50.42
1995 50.22
1996 50.10
1997 50.08
1998 50.17
1999 50.39
2000 50.75
2001 51.27
2002 51.94
2003 52.73
2004 53.61
2005 54.55
2006 55.51
2007 56.46
2008 57.37
2009 58.21
2010 58.97
2011 59.65
2012 60.27
2013 60.83
2014 61.34
2015 61.80
2016 62.20
2017 62.55
2018 62.84
2019 63.08
2020 63.29

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