Ireland - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Ireland was 80.40 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 80.80 in 2019 and a minimum value of 67.98 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 67.98
1961 68.11
1962 68.22
1963 68.31
1964 68.39
1965 68.47
1966 68.54
1967 68.59
1968 68.64
1969 68.67
1970 68.71
1971 68.75
1972 68.80
1973 68.87
1974 68.95
1975 69.06
1976 69.19
1977 69.35
1978 69.52
1979 69.71
1980 69.91
1981 70.12
1982 70.33
1983 70.54
1984 70.75
1985 70.96
1986 71.17
1987 71.38
1988 71.61
1989 71.83
1990 72.05
1991 72.26
1992 72.44
1993 72.60
1994 72.75
1995 72.90
1996 73.10
1997 73.40
1998 73.40
1999 73.40
2000 74.00
2001 74.50
2002 75.00
2003 75.70
2004 76.10
2005 76.70
2006 76.90
2007 77.30
2008 77.90
2009 77.80
2010 78.50
2011 78.60
2012 78.70
2013 78.90
2014 79.30
2015 79.60
2016 79.80
2017 80.40
2018 80.40
2019 80.80
2020 80.40

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