Madagascar - Life expectancy at birth, total (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, total (years) in Madagascar was 67.39 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 67.39 in 2020 and a minimum value of 39.96 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, or derived from male and female life expectancy at birth from sources such as: (2) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (3)

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Year Value
1960 39.96
1961 40.44
1962 40.92
1963 41.40
1964 41.88
1965 42.35
1966 42.83
1967 43.31
1968 43.80
1969 44.28
1970 44.77
1971 45.26
1972 45.74
1973 46.20
1974 46.66
1975 47.09
1976 47.52
1977 47.93
1978 48.32
1979 48.68
1980 49.01
1981 49.26
1982 49.44
1983 49.56
1984 49.63
1985 49.69
1986 49.78
1987 49.93
1988 50.18
1989 50.53
1990 51.00
1991 51.60
1992 52.28
1993 53.02
1994 53.81
1995 54.62
1996 55.43
1997 56.24
1998 57.03
1999 57.78
2000 58.49
2001 59.13
2002 59.72
2003 60.26
2004 60.75
2005 61.21
2006 61.65
2007 62.08
2008 62.51
2009 62.94
2010 63.39
2011 63.84
2012 64.28
2013 64.71
2014 65.13
2015 65.54
2016 65.93
2017 66.31
2018 66.68
2019 67.04
2020 67.39

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