Czech Republic - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Czech Republic was 75.30 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 76.40 in 2019 and a minimum value of 65.85 in 1969.

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 67.50
1961 67.62
1962 66.86
1963 67.28
1964 67.44
1965 67.09
1966 67.18
1967 67.03
1968 66.47
1969 65.85
1970 66.05
1971 66.16
1972 66.84
1973 66.53
1974 66.75
1975 67.00
1976 67.04
1977 67.11
1978 67.20
1979 67.33
1980 66.80
1981 67.21
1982 67.32
1983 67.05
1984 67.34
1985 67.50
1986 67.49
1987 67.87
1988 68.10
1989 68.10
1990 67.54
1991 68.23
1992 68.54
1993 69.28
1994 69.48
1995 69.67
1996 70.30
1997 70.42
1998 71.10
1999 71.40
2000 71.70
2001 72.10
2002 72.10
2003 72.00
2004 72.60
2005 72.90
2006 73.50
2007 73.70
2008 74.00
2009 74.20
2010 74.40
2011 74.80
2012 75.10
2013 75.20
2014 75.80
2015 75.70
2016 76.10
2017 76.10
2018 76.20
2019 76.40
2020 75.30

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