Fiji - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Fiji was 65.77 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 65.77 in 2020 and a minimum value of 59.64 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 59.64
1961 59.90
1962 60.10
1963 60.27
1964 60.41
1965 60.51
1966 60.57
1967 60.59
1968 60.56
1969 60.50
1970 60.44
1971 60.39
1972 60.39
1973 60.43
1974 60.54
1975 60.70
1976 60.91
1977 61.14
1978 61.39
1979 61.63
1980 61.87
1981 62.10
1982 62.33
1983 62.55
1984 62.76
1985 62.95
1986 63.12
1987 63.25
1988 63.35
1989 63.41
1990 63.45
1991 63.45
1992 63.44
1993 63.41
1994 63.39
1995 63.39
1996 63.43
1997 63.51
1998 63.64
1999 63.81
2000 64.01
2001 64.21
2002 64.40
2003 64.57
2004 64.69
2005 64.79
2006 64.86
2007 64.93
2008 65.00
2009 65.09
2010 65.18
2011 65.27
2012 65.35
2013 65.42
2014 65.47
2015 65.52
2016 65.56
2017 65.59
2018 65.64
2019 65.70
2020 65.77

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