Niger - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Niger was 61.64 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 61.64 in 2020 and a minimum value of 34.56 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 34.56
1961 34.65
1962 34.74
1963 34.81
1964 34.88
1965 34.95
1966 35.02
1967 35.08
1968 35.16
1969 35.25
1970 35.36
1971 35.49
1972 35.64
1973 35.83
1974 36.04
1975 36.30
1976 36.62
1977 36.98
1978 37.40
1979 37.86
1980 38.34
1981 38.83
1982 39.30
1983 39.76
1984 40.19
1985 40.60
1986 41.00
1987 41.41
1988 41.85
1989 42.32
1990 42.84
1991 43.39
1992 44.00
1993 44.63
1994 45.29
1995 45.97
1996 46.65
1997 47.32
1998 47.99
1999 48.64
2000 49.28
2001 49.92
2002 50.57
2003 51.24
2004 51.93
2005 52.64
2006 53.38
2007 54.13
2008 54.88
2009 55.63
2010 56.36
2011 57.07
2012 57.75
2013 58.39
2014 58.99
2015 59.54
2016 60.03
2017 60.49
2018 60.90
2019 61.28
2020 61.64

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