European Union - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in European Union was 77.75 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 78.66 in 2019 and a minimum value of 66.47 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 66.47
1961 66.80
1962 66.66
1963 66.90
1964 67.28
1965 67.38
1966 67.61
1967 67.60
1968 67.66
1969 67.55
1970 67.87
1971 67.87
1972 68.25
1973 68.33
1974 68.60
1975 68.61
1976 68.80
1977 69.00
1978 69.12
1979 69.35
1980 69.37
1981 69.70
1982 69.98
1983 70.01
1984 70.23
1985 70.35
1986 70.63
1987 70.83
1988 71.04
1989 71.16
1990 71.23
1991 71.28
1992 71.58
1993 71.75
1994 72.01
1995 72.16
1996 72.47
1997 72.85
1998 73.16
1999 73.42
2000 73.81
2001 74.20
2002 74.34
2003 74.47
2004 74.98
2005 75.16
2006 75.56
2007 75.84
2008 76.13
2009 76.37
2010 76.67
2011 77.17
2012 77.27
2013 77.63
2014 78.05
2015 77.82
2016 78.19
2017 78.26
2018 78.35
2019 78.66
2020 77.75

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