Oman - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Oman was 76.36 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 76.36 in 2020 and a minimum value of 41.87 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 41.87
1961 42.65
1962 43.42
1963 44.18
1964 44.92
1965 45.65
1966 46.36
1967 47.05
1968 47.73
1969 48.42
1970 49.12
1971 49.86
1972 50.64
1973 51.49
1974 52.38
1975 53.33
1976 54.30
1977 55.28
1978 56.25
1979 57.19
1980 58.11
1981 58.98
1982 59.82
1983 60.64
1984 61.42
1985 62.17
1986 62.88
1987 63.55
1988 64.20
1989 64.81
1990 65.40
1991 65.96
1992 66.51
1993 67.03
1994 67.55
1995 68.05
1996 68.54
1997 69.02
1998 69.48
1999 69.93
2000 70.36
2001 70.78
2002 71.19
2003 71.59
2004 71.98
2005 72.35
2006 72.70
2007 73.02
2008 73.32
2009 73.60
2010 73.87
2011 74.12
2012 74.37
2013 74.62
2014 74.88
2015 75.13
2016 75.39
2017 75.65
2018 75.89
2019 76.13
2020 76.36

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