Lithuania - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Lithuania was 70.10 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 71.60 in 2019 and a minimum value of 62.54 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 66.94
1961 66.81
1962 65.91
1963 66.78
1964 68.27
1965 68.13
1966 68.13
1967 67.96
1968 67.66
1969 67.07
1970 66.78
1971 67.55
1972 66.81
1973 67.22
1974 67.01
1975 66.36
1976 66.28
1977 66.19
1978 65.99
1979 65.57
1980 65.57
1981 65.49
1982 65.91
1983 65.89
1984 65.32
1985 65.75
1986 67.91
1987 67.72
1988 67.45
1989 66.84
1990 66.39
1991 65.13
1992 64.81
1993 63.13
1994 62.54
1995 63.26
1996 64.63
1997 65.47
1998 66.00
1999 66.40
2000 66.80
2001 66.00
2002 66.20
2003 66.50
2004 66.40
2005 65.40
2006 65.30
2007 64.90
2008 66.30
2009 67.50
2010 68.00
2011 68.10
2012 68.40
2013 68.50
2014 69.20
2015 69.20
2016 69.50
2017 70.70
2018 70.90
2019 71.60
2020 70.10

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