Namibia - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Namibia was 61.02 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 61.02 in 2020 and a minimum value of 44.21 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 44.21
1961 44.98
1962 45.74
1963 46.47
1964 47.17
1965 47.83
1966 48.44
1967 49.00
1968 49.51
1969 49.98
1970 50.43
1971 50.87
1972 51.31
1973 51.78
1974 52.25
1975 52.72
1976 53.16
1977 53.53
1978 53.85
1979 54.11
1980 54.35
1981 54.62
1982 54.95
1983 55.35
1984 55.82
1985 56.35
1986 56.93
1987 57.50
1988 58.01
1989 58.40
1990 58.60
1991 58.53
1992 58.18
1993 57.56
1994 56.70
1995 55.63
1996 54.42
1997 53.15
1998 51.93
1999 50.82
2000 49.92
2001 49.28
2002 48.90
2003 48.77
2004 48.91
2005 49.33
2006 50.04
2007 50.98
2008 52.10
2009 53.33
2010 54.59
2011 55.79
2012 56.88
2013 57.82
2014 58.60
2015 59.20
2016 59.65
2017 60.02
2018 60.36
2019 60.69
2020 61.02

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