Greenland - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Greenland was 69.59 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 42 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 70.27 in 2015 and a minimum value of 59.47 in 1981.

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
1978 60.00
1979 60.35
1980 59.84
1981 59.47
1982 60.10
1983 60.50
1984 60.53
1985 60.58
1986 61.00
1987 61.02
1988 60.68
1989 60.77
1990 61.40
1991 61.70
1992 62.04
1993 62.80
1994 63.34
1995 63.41
1996 63.26
1997 63.12
1998 63.44
1999 63.72
2000 63.52
2001 64.28
2002 65.05
2003 65.91
2004 65.90
2005 65.52
2006 66.13
2007 67.08
2008 67.82
2009 68.41
2010 67.97
2011 67.42
2012 68.35
2013 69.31
2014 70.01
2015 70.27
2016 69.23
2017 68.57
2018 69.75
2019 70.15
2020 69.59

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