Mali - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Mali was 58.89 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 58.89 in 2020 and a minimum value of 27.44 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 27.44
1961 27.55
1962 27.71
1963 27.93
1964 28.23
1965 28.62
1966 29.09
1967 29.63
1968 30.23
1969 30.86
1970 31.53
1971 32.22
1972 32.93
1973 33.63
1974 34.34
1975 35.05
1976 35.77
1977 36.51
1978 37.26
1979 38.03
1980 38.80
1981 39.57
1982 40.32
1983 41.05
1984 41.75
1985 42.40
1986 43.02
1987 43.60
1988 44.13
1989 44.61
1990 45.03
1991 45.34
1992 45.56
1993 45.68
1994 45.75
1995 45.81
1996 45.91
1997 46.08
1998 46.38
1999 46.81
2000 47.39
2001 48.09
2002 48.89
2003 49.73
2004 50.59
2005 51.43
2006 52.21
2007 52.93
2008 53.57
2009 54.13
2010 54.62
2011 55.07
2012 55.49
2013 55.92
2014 56.36
2015 56.82
2016 57.28
2017 57.72
2018 58.14
2019 58.53
2020 58.89

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