Myanmar - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Myanmar was 64.28 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 64.28 in 2020 and a minimum value of 39.56 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 39.56
1961 40.14
1962 40.75
1963 41.41
1964 42.11
1965 42.83
1966 43.56
1967 44.25
1968 44.88
1969 45.45
1970 45.94
1971 46.37
1972 46.77
1973 47.15
1974 47.52
1975 47.90
1976 48.27
1977 48.65
1978 49.02
1979 49.38
1980 49.76
1981 50.13
1982 50.52
1983 50.91
1984 51.31
1985 51.71
1986 52.11
1987 52.50
1988 52.88
1989 53.25
1990 53.61
1991 53.96
1992 54.30
1993 54.64
1994 54.98
1995 55.32
1996 55.66
1997 56.01
1998 56.36
1999 56.71
2000 57.04
2001 57.36
2002 57.66
2003 57.93
2004 58.18
2005 58.43
2006 58.69
2007 58.98
2008 59.31
2009 59.68
2010 60.10
2011 60.57
2012 61.06
2013 61.57
2014 62.08
2015 62.57
2016 63.02
2017 63.42
2018 63.76
2019 64.05
2020 64.28

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