Philippines - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Philippines was 67.39 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 67.39 in 2020 and a minimum value of 58.97 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 58.97
1961 59.38
1962 59.72
1963 60.01
1964 60.24
1965 60.42
1966 60.55
1967 60.65
1968 60.71
1969 60.75
1970 60.76
1971 60.75
1972 60.71
1973 60.65
1974 60.59
1975 60.53
1976 60.49
1977 60.49
1978 60.53
1979 60.62
1980 60.75
1981 60.90
1982 61.07
1983 61.24
1984 61.41
1985 61.60
1986 61.84
1987 62.13
1988 62.49
1989 62.89
1990 63.33
1991 63.77
1992 64.19
1993 64.56
1994 64.87
1995 65.11
1996 65.27
1997 65.38
1998 65.44
1999 65.48
2000 65.50
2001 65.51
2002 65.52
2003 65.53
2004 65.56
2005 65.60
2006 65.65
2007 65.72
2008 65.79
2009 65.87
2010 65.96
2011 66.06
2012 66.19
2013 66.33
2014 66.48
2015 66.64
2016 66.81
2017 66.97
2018 67.12
2019 67.26
2020 67.39

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