Honduras - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Honduras was 73.14 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 73.14 in 2020 and a minimum value of 44.62 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 44.62
1961 45.28
1962 45.93
1963 46.57
1964 47.19
1965 47.78
1966 48.35
1967 48.91
1968 49.47
1969 50.03
1970 50.60
1971 51.19
1972 51.80
1973 52.44
1974 53.11
1975 53.80
1976 54.51
1977 55.25
1978 55.99
1979 56.75
1980 57.52
1981 58.30
1982 59.10
1983 59.90
1984 60.69
1985 61.46
1986 62.19
1987 62.86
1988 63.46
1989 63.99
1990 64.47
1991 64.90
1992 65.31
1993 65.71
1994 66.12
1995 66.52
1996 66.92
1997 67.31
1998 67.68
1999 68.03
2000 68.36
2001 68.67
2002 68.95
2003 69.22
2004 69.48
2005 69.73
2006 69.97
2007 70.21
2008 70.45
2009 70.70
2010 70.95
2011 71.19
2012 71.44
2013 71.68
2014 71.92
2015 72.15
2016 72.37
2017 72.57
2018 72.77
2019 72.96
2020 73.14

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