Middle income - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Middle income was 70.07 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 70.07 in 2020 and a minimum value of 46.32 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 46.32
1961 46.84
1962 47.44
1963 48.13
1964 48.94
1965 49.82
1966 50.74
1967 51.66
1968 52.54
1969 53.34
1970 54.07
1971 54.75
1972 55.37
1973 55.97
1974 56.54
1975 57.06
1976 57.56
1977 58.02
1978 58.45
1979 58.82
1980 59.18
1981 59.52
1982 59.86
1983 60.17
1984 60.45
1985 60.79
1986 61.16
1987 61.45
1988 61.70
1989 61.92
1990 62.13
1991 62.33
1992 62.47
1993 62.57
1994 62.74
1995 62.98
1996 63.28
1997 63.60
1998 63.90
1999 64.15
2000 64.42
2001 64.72
2002 65.01
2003 65.31
2004 65.62
2005 65.91
2006 66.25
2007 66.58
2008 66.89
2009 67.23
2010 67.55
2011 67.88
2012 68.19
2013 68.49
2014 68.77
2015 69.05
2016 69.30
2017 69.55
2018 69.76
2019 69.96
2020 70.07

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