Other small states - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Other small states was 67.54 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 67.54 in 2020 and a minimum value of 48.94 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 48.94
1961 49.41
1962 49.87
1963 50.28
1964 50.70
1965 51.11
1966 51.45
1967 51.80
1968 52.15
1969 52.48
1970 52.81
1971 53.13
1972 53.47
1973 53.74
1974 54.01
1975 54.32
1976 54.66
1977 55.02
1978 55.45
1979 55.92
1980 56.45
1981 56.97
1982 57.47
1983 57.92
1984 58.35
1985 58.72
1986 59.13
1987 59.46
1988 59.68
1989 59.77
1990 59.74
1991 59.77
1992 59.66
1993 59.45
1994 59.17
1995 58.99
1996 58.95
1997 58.71
1998 58.48
1999 58.36
2000 58.31
2001 58.24
2002 58.31
2003 58.54
2004 58.88
2005 59.40
2006 59.99
2007 60.71
2008 61.51
2009 62.32
2010 63.08
2011 63.75
2012 64.39
2013 65.00
2014 65.49
2015 65.98
2016 66.37
2017 66.75
2018 67.07
2019 67.35
2020 67.54

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