Latvia - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Latvia was 70.90 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 70.90 in 2020 and a minimum value of 59.04 in 1994.

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 66.26
1961 66.33
1962 65.85
1963 66.19
1964 67.35
1965 66.79
1966 67.00
1967 66.75
1968 65.76
1969 65.27
1970 65.65
1971 65.75
1972 65.23
1973 65.35
1974 64.98
1975 63.94
1976 63.96
1977 64.29
1978 64.10
1979 63.52
1980 63.75
1981 63.44
1982 64.26
1983 63.88
1984 64.08
1985 64.75
1986 66.32
1987 66.41
1988 66.23
1989 65.37
1990 64.20
1991 63.73
1992 62.64
1993 60.43
1994 59.04
1995 60.04
1996 63.04
1997 63.92
1998 63.50
1999 64.46
2000 64.90
2001 65.20
2002 65.40
2003 65.90
2004 67.10
2005 65.60
2006 65.50
2007 65.80
2008 67.20
2009 68.30
2010 68.80
2011 68.60
2012 68.90
2013 69.30
2014 69.10
2015 69.70
2016 69.80
2017 69.80
2018 70.10
2019 70.90
2020 70.90

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