Lebanon - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Lebanon was 77.22 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 77.22 in 2020 and a minimum value of 61.57 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 61.57
1961 61.87
1962 62.16
1963 62.44
1964 62.72
1965 63.00
1966 63.27
1967 63.54
1968 63.82
1969 64.09
1970 64.35
1971 64.60
1972 64.83
1973 65.05
1974 65.26
1975 65.45
1976 65.62
1977 65.78
1978 65.93
1979 66.09
1980 66.24
1981 66.41
1982 66.59
1983 66.79
1984 67.00
1985 67.24
1986 67.49
1987 67.77
1988 68.07
1989 68.38
1990 68.71
1991 69.06
1992 69.43
1993 69.82
1994 70.22
1995 70.64
1996 71.06
1997 71.50
1998 71.94
1999 72.38
2000 72.82
2001 73.27
2002 73.73
2003 74.19
2004 74.65
2005 75.08
2006 75.48
2007 75.84
2008 76.15
2009 76.41
2010 76.60
2011 76.74
2012 76.83
2013 76.90
2014 76.94
2015 76.97
2016 77.00
2017 77.03
2018 77.08
2019 77.14
2020 77.22

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