Gabon - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Gabon was 64.58 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 64.58 in 2020 and a minimum value of 38.24 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 38.24
1961 38.62
1962 39.10
1963 39.68
1964 40.38
1965 41.18
1966 42.05
1967 42.96
1968 43.87
1969 44.76
1970 45.63
1971 46.47
1972 47.29
1973 48.11
1974 48.93
1975 49.74
1976 50.54
1977 51.35
1978 52.16
1979 52.96
1980 53.76
1981 54.57
1982 55.38
1983 56.19
1984 56.96
1985 57.68
1986 58.30
1987 58.81
1988 59.19
1989 59.44
1990 59.56
1991 59.57
1992 59.49
1993 59.37
1994 59.20
1995 58.98
1996 58.69
1997 58.34
1998 57.93
1999 57.50
2000 57.09
2001 56.75
2002 56.53
2003 56.46
2004 56.55
2005 56.82
2006 57.26
2007 57.84
2008 58.51
2009 59.24
2010 60.00
2011 60.73
2012 61.44
2013 62.09
2014 62.67
2015 63.15
2016 63.55
2017 63.88
2018 64.15
2019 64.38
2020 64.58

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