Estonia - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Estonia was 74.20 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 74.50 in 2019 and a minimum value of 60.50 in 1994.

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 63.98
1961 64.43
1962 64.80
1963 65.10
1964 65.33
1965 65.50
1966 65.63
1967 65.71
1968 65.74
1969 65.73
1970 65.68
1971 65.58
1972 65.43
1973 65.23
1974 65.00
1975 64.75
1976 64.51
1977 64.29
1978 64.10
1979 63.96
1980 63.91
1981 64.10
1982 64.20
1983 64.40
1984 64.40
1985 64.60
1986 65.50
1987 66.40
1988 66.60
1989 65.60
1990 64.50
1991 64.30
1992 63.40
1993 62.30
1994 60.50
1995 61.30
1996 64.10
1997 64.20
1998 63.70
1999 64.60
2000 65.10
2001 64.60
2002 65.10
2003 66.00
2004 66.30
2005 67.30
2006 67.35
2007 67.40
2008 68.60
2009 69.80
2010 70.60
2011 71.40
2012 71.40
2013 72.80
2014 72.40
2015 73.20
2016 73.30
2017 73.80
2018 74.00
2019 74.50
2020 74.20

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