Eswatini - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Eswatini was 56.52 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 59.98 in 1990 and a minimum value of 40.66 in 2005.

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 41.50
1961 41.89
1962 42.29
1963 42.68
1964 43.08
1965 43.50
1966 43.95
1967 44.45
1968 44.98
1969 45.56
1970 46.19
1971 46.85
1972 47.55
1973 48.27
1974 49.00
1975 49.75
1976 50.51
1977 51.30
1978 52.10
1979 52.90
1980 53.73
1981 54.57
1982 55.43
1983 56.29
1984 57.11
1985 57.89
1986 58.60
1987 59.21
1988 59.69
1989 59.98
1990 59.98
1991 59.61
1992 58.84
1993 57.70
1994 56.20
1995 54.41
1996 52.40
1997 50.28
1998 48.19
1999 46.23
2000 44.50
2001 43.08
2002 41.97
2003 41.19
2004 40.75
2005 40.66
2006 40.92
2007 41.47
2008 42.26
2009 43.23
2010 44.37
2011 45.68
2012 47.13
2013 48.68
2014 50.26
2015 51.78
2016 53.15
2017 54.33
2018 55.28
2019 56.01
2020 56.52

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