Libya - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Libya was 70.27 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 70.27 in 2020 and a minimum value of 41.45 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 41.45
1961 43.03
1962 44.64
1963 46.21
1964 47.69
1965 49.05
1966 50.29
1967 51.44
1968 52.51
1969 53.52
1970 54.48
1971 55.40
1972 56.28
1973 57.14
1974 57.98
1975 58.81
1976 59.61
1977 60.39
1978 61.13
1979 61.83
1980 62.48
1981 63.08
1982 63.63
1983 64.14
1984 64.59
1985 65.02
1986 65.42
1987 65.81
1988 66.20
1989 66.58
1990 66.95
1991 67.31
1992 67.64
1993 67.93
1994 68.19
1995 68.41
1996 68.60
1997 68.78
1998 68.94
1999 69.08
2000 69.23
2001 69.39
2002 69.55
2003 69.72
2004 69.87
2005 69.99
2006 70.04
2007 70.00
2008 69.88
2009 69.70
2010 69.47
2011 69.27
2012 69.12
2013 69.06
2014 69.11
2015 69.24
2016 69.44
2017 69.67
2018 69.90
2019 70.10
2020 70.27

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