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

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Pacific island small states was 68.37 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 68.37 in 2020 and a minimum value of 55.16 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 55.16
1961 55.58
1962 55.97
1963 56.34
1964 56.69
1965 57.02
1966 57.33
1967 57.61
1968 57.87
1969 58.12
1970 58.36
1971 58.60
1972 58.86
1973 59.14
1974 59.44
1975 59.75
1976 60.09
1977 60.42
1978 60.75
1979 61.07
1980 61.38
1981 61.67
1982 61.95
1983 62.21
1984 62.45
1985 62.67
1986 62.87
1987 63.04
1988 63.19
1989 63.33
1990 63.45
1991 63.56
1992 63.66
1993 63.76
1994 63.87
1995 64.00
1996 64.15
1997 64.32
1998 64.52
1999 64.75
2000 64.98
2001 65.22
2002 65.44
2003 65.64
2004 65.83
2005 65.99
2006 66.14
2007 66.28
2008 66.44
2009 66.60
2010 66.78
2011 66.96
2012 67.15
2013 67.34
2014 67.52
2015 67.69
2016 67.85
2017 67.99
2018 68.13
2019 68.25
2020 68.37

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