Mauritius - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Mauritius was 70.86 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 71.30 in 2017 and a minimum value of 56.95 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 56.95
1961 57.96
1962 58.84
1963 59.56
1964 60.11
1965 60.49
1966 60.71
1967 60.81
1968 60.84
1969 60.83
1970 60.80
1971 60.77
1972 60.74
1973 60.73
1974 60.76
1975 60.87
1976 61.10
1977 61.45
1978 61.91
1979 62.45
1980 63.02
1981 63.56
1982 64.02
1983 64.36
1984 64.59
1985 64.72
1986 64.81
1987 64.94
1988 65.12
1989 65.39
1990 65.60
1991 66.20
1992 66.40
1993 66.40
1994 66.50
1995 66.56
1996 66.44
1997 66.60
1998 66.90
1999 67.40
2000 68.20
2001 68.40
2002 68.60
2003 68.80
2004 68.90
2005 69.12
2006 69.12
2007 69.20
2008 69.20
2009 69.38
2010 69.46
2011 69.74
2012 70.40
2013 70.70
2014 70.97
2015 71.08
2016 71.19
2017 71.30
2018 71.27
2019 71.07
2020 70.86

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