Indonesia - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Indonesia was 69.75 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 69.75 in 2020 and a minimum value of 44.48 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 44.48
1961 45.10
1962 45.71
1963 46.32
1964 46.93
1965 47.53
1966 48.15
1967 48.77
1968 49.40
1969 50.03
1970 50.67
1971 51.30
1972 51.93
1973 52.53
1974 53.13
1975 53.70
1976 54.27
1977 54.82
1978 55.37
1979 55.91
1980 56.44
1981 56.96
1982 57.46
1983 57.94
1984 58.41
1985 58.85
1986 59.29
1987 59.71
1988 60.12
1989 60.53
1990 60.94
1991 61.35
1992 61.77
1993 62.18
1994 62.58
1995 62.97
1996 63.32
1997 63.63
1998 63.90
1999 64.14
2000 64.35
2001 64.55
2002 64.77
2003 65.01
2004 65.28
2005 65.58
2006 65.90
2007 66.23
2008 66.55
2009 66.87
2010 67.18
2011 67.49
2012 67.78
2013 68.08
2014 68.37
2015 68.65
2016 68.91
2017 69.16
2018 69.38
2019 69.57
2020 69.75

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