Haiti - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Haiti was 62.13 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 62.13 in 2020 and a minimum value of 40.32 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 40.32
1961 40.68
1962 41.05
1963 41.42
1964 41.82
1965 42.25
1966 42.71
1967 43.19
1968 43.69
1969 44.20
1970 44.72
1971 45.24
1972 45.78
1973 46.32
1974 46.85
1975 47.37
1976 47.87
1977 48.33
1978 48.76
1979 49.15
1980 49.51
1981 49.85
1982 50.17
1983 50.47
1984 50.77
1985 51.07
1986 51.37
1987 51.67
1988 51.96
1989 52.25
1990 52.54
1991 52.83
1992 53.12
1993 53.41
1994 53.69
1995 53.97
1996 54.24
1997 54.50
1998 54.74
1999 54.98
2000 55.22
2001 55.47
2002 55.75
2003 56.06
2004 56.39
2005 56.75
2006 57.12
2007 57.48
2008 57.83
2009 58.17
2010 58.50
2011 58.83
2012 59.18
2013 59.56
2014 59.95
2015 60.35
2016 60.75
2017 61.14
2018 61.50
2019 61.83
2020 62.13

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