Liberia - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Liberia was 63.02 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 63.02 in 2020 and a minimum value of 31.74 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 31.74
1961 32.08
1962 32.49
1963 32.96
1964 33.50
1965 34.10
1966 34.73
1967 35.39
1968 36.06
1969 36.72
1970 37.38
1971 38.06
1972 38.75
1973 39.47
1974 40.21
1975 40.95
1976 41.69
1977 42.42
1978 43.12
1979 43.75
1980 44.30
1981 44.73
1982 45.05
1983 45.24
1984 45.31
1985 45.28
1986 45.13
1987 44.91
1988 44.65
1989 44.43
1990 44.31
1991 44.39
1992 44.69
1993 45.23
1994 45.99
1995 46.89
1996 47.83
1997 48.73
1998 49.50
1999 50.15
2000 50.68
2001 51.18
2002 51.73
2003 52.39
2004 53.16
2005 54.02
2006 54.93
2007 55.81
2008 56.62
2009 57.34
2010 57.98
2011 58.56
2012 59.13
2013 59.70
2014 60.28
2015 60.86
2016 61.41
2017 61.91
2018 62.35
2019 62.72
2020 63.02

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