Papua New Guinea - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Papua New Guinea was 63.48 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 63.48 in 2020 and a minimum value of 38.45 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 38.45
1961 39.01
1962 39.58
1963 40.19
1964 40.84
1965 41.52
1966 42.24
1967 42.96
1968 43.69
1969 44.41
1970 45.13
1971 45.84
1972 46.55
1973 47.27
1974 47.98
1975 48.67
1976 49.34
1977 49.98
1978 50.58
1979 51.14
1980 51.65
1981 52.11
1982 52.52
1983 52.89
1984 53.23
1985 53.55
1986 53.86
1987 54.16
1988 54.46
1989 54.77
1990 55.09
1991 55.42
1992 55.74
1993 56.05
1994 56.36
1995 56.65
1996 56.93
1997 57.19
1998 57.44
1999 57.68
2000 57.92
2001 58.17
2002 58.42
2003 58.68
2004 58.95
2005 59.24
2006 59.53
2007 59.83
2008 60.12
2009 60.41
2010 60.70
2011 61.00
2012 61.30
2013 61.60
2014 61.91
2015 62.22
2016 62.51
2017 62.78
2018 63.04
2019 63.27
2020 63.48

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