Jamaica - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Jamaica was 72.95 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 73.00 in 1994 and a minimum value of 63.18 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 63.18
1961 63.59
1962 63.95
1963 64.30
1964 64.63
1965 64.94
1966 65.25
1967 65.53
1968 65.80
1969 66.06
1970 66.32
1971 66.60
1972 66.91
1973 67.25
1974 67.62
1975 68.00
1976 68.38
1977 68.75
1978 69.10
1979 69.41
1980 69.70
1981 69.95
1982 70.19
1983 70.42
1984 70.65
1985 70.89
1986 71.16
1987 71.45
1988 71.76
1989 72.07
1990 72.37
1991 72.62
1992 72.82
1993 72.94
1994 73.00
1995 73.00
1996 72.96
1997 72.90
1998 72.86
1999 72.84
2000 72.84
2001 72.85
2002 72.86
2003 72.87
2004 72.87
2005 72.85
2006 72.81
2007 72.76
2008 72.70
2009 72.64
2010 72.58
2011 72.54
2012 72.51
2013 72.51
2014 72.53
2015 72.57
2016 72.64
2017 72.71
2018 72.79
2019 72.87
2020 72.95

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