Puerto Rico - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Puerto Rico was 76.73 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 76.73 in 2020 and a minimum value of 66.08 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 66.08
1961 66.23
1962 66.36
1963 66.52
1964 66.71
1965 66.94
1966 67.22
1967 67.50
1968 67.79
1969 68.07
1970 68.34
1971 68.60
1972 68.87
1973 69.13
1974 69.39
1975 69.64
1976 69.86
1977 70.05
1978 70.21
1979 70.32
1980 70.41
1981 70.48
1982 70.53
1983 70.58
1984 70.62
1985 70.64
1986 70.60
1987 70.49
1988 70.32
1989 70.10
1990 69.86
1991 69.63
1992 69.46
1993 69.38
1994 69.39
1995 69.53
1996 69.78
1997 70.13
1998 70.54
1999 71.00
2000 72.66
2001 72.94
2002 73.58
2003 74.12
2004 74.21
2005 74.34
2006 74.47
2007 74.46
2008 74.22
2009 74.49
2010 74.76
2011 75.03
2012 75.27
2013 75.49
2014 75.68
2015 75.85
2016 76.01
2017 76.18
2018 76.35
2019 76.53
2020 76.73

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