Maldives - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Maldives was 77.82 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 77.82 in 2020 and a minimum value of 37.14 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 37.14
1961 37.77
1962 38.45
1963 39.14
1964 39.86
1965 40.59
1966 41.34
1967 42.09
1968 42.87
1969 43.66
1970 44.48
1971 45.32
1972 46.18
1973 47.07
1974 47.99
1975 48.93
1976 49.91
1977 50.91
1978 51.94
1979 52.96
1980 53.98
1981 54.96
1982 55.91
1983 56.80
1984 57.63
1985 58.41
1986 59.14
1987 59.83
1988 60.50
1989 61.16
1990 61.82
1991 62.49
1992 63.17
1993 63.86
1994 64.57
1995 65.30
1996 66.06
1997 66.85
1998 67.64
1999 68.44
2000 69.23
2001 69.99
2002 70.71
2003 71.39
2004 72.01
2005 72.57
2006 73.08
2007 73.54
2008 73.96
2009 74.35
2010 74.71
2011 75.06
2012 75.39
2013 75.71
2014 76.02
2015 76.32
2016 76.63
2017 76.93
2018 77.23
2019 77.52
2020 77.82

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