Mauritania - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Mauritania was 63.50 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 63.50 in 2020 and a minimum value of 43.49 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 43.49
1961 44.13
1962 44.76
1963 45.40
1964 46.02
1965 46.62
1966 47.19
1967 47.70
1968 48.16
1969 48.58
1970 48.95
1971 49.29
1972 49.61
1973 49.94
1974 50.28
1975 50.66
1976 51.08
1977 51.54
1978 52.05
1979 52.59
1980 53.17
1981 53.77
1982 54.39
1983 55.00
1984 55.60
1985 56.16
1986 56.67
1987 57.12
1988 57.52
1989 57.85
1990 58.13
1991 58.33
1992 58.49
1993 58.60
1994 58.68
1995 58.73
1996 58.77
1997 58.79
1998 58.81
1999 58.83
2000 58.86
2001 58.93
2002 59.02
2003 59.14
2004 59.29
2005 59.48
2006 59.69
2007 59.92
2008 60.17
2009 60.43
2010 60.71
2011 61.00
2012 61.30
2013 61.61
2014 61.94
2015 62.25
2016 62.55
2017 62.83
2018 63.08
2019 63.31
2020 63.50

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