Ethiopia - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Ethiopia was 65.04 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 65.04 in 2020 and a minimum value of 36.97 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 36.97
1961 37.61
1962 38.23
1963 38.79
1964 39.30
1965 39.75
1966 40.16
1967 40.52
1968 40.85
1969 41.16
1970 41.45
1971 41.72
1972 41.98
1973 42.21
1974 42.41
1975 42.56
1976 42.63
1977 42.62
1978 42.54
1979 42.42
1980 42.30
1981 42.24
1982 42.28
1983 42.46
1984 42.78
1985 43.21
1986 43.71
1987 44.24
1988 44.73
1989 45.20
1990 45.62
1991 46.01
1992 46.42
1993 46.85
1994 47.32
1995 47.82
1996 48.34
1997 48.88
1998 49.42
1999 49.98
2000 50.59
2001 51.26
2002 52.03
2003 52.89
2004 53.83
2005 54.85
2006 55.91
2007 56.99
2008 58.05
2009 59.05
2010 59.98
2011 60.80
2012 61.53
2013 62.18
2014 62.73
2015 63.21
2016 63.62
2017 64.00
2018 64.35
2019 64.69
2020 65.04

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