Guyana - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Guyana was 67.04 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 67.04 in 2020 and a minimum value of 57.75 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 57.75
1961 57.95
1962 58.15
1963 58.35
1964 58.54
1965 58.73
1966 58.91
1967 59.06
1968 59.20
1969 59.30
1970 59.39
1971 59.45
1972 59.50
1973 59.53
1974 59.56
1975 59.58
1976 59.60
1977 59.62
1978 59.65
1979 59.67
1980 59.69
1981 59.70
1982 59.70
1983 59.70
1984 59.69
1985 59.69
1986 59.70
1987 59.73
1988 59.79
1989 59.88
1990 60.01
1991 60.16
1992 60.34
1993 60.53
1994 60.74
1995 60.96
1996 61.20
1997 61.45
1998 61.71
1999 61.99
2000 62.27
2001 62.55
2002 62.82
2003 63.09
2004 63.35
2005 63.60
2006 63.84
2007 64.08
2008 64.32
2009 64.57
2010 64.82
2011 65.08
2012 65.35
2013 65.62
2014 65.89
2015 66.16
2016 66.39
2017 66.61
2018 66.78
2019 66.93
2020 67.04

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