Rwanda - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Rwanda was 67.11 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 67.11 in 2020 and a minimum value of 24.83 in 1993.

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 41.15
1961 41.48
1962 41.79
1963 42.08
1964 42.34
1965 42.55
1966 42.73
1967 42.87
1968 42.98
1969 43.07
1970 43.16
1971 43.24
1972 43.32
1973 43.43
1974 43.59
1975 43.84
1976 44.24
1977 44.79
1978 45.48
1979 46.25
1980 47.12
1981 48.09
1982 49.08
1983 49.92
1984 50.46
1985 50.25
1986 48.78
1987 45.95
1988 41.89
1989 36.96
1990 31.94
1991 27.80
1992 25.29
1993 24.83
1994 26.48
1995 29.87
1996 34.30
1997 38.84
1998 42.75
1999 45.73
2000 47.75
2001 49.01
2002 50.01
2003 51.12
2004 52.45
2005 54.01
2006 55.73
2007 57.45
2008 59.04
2009 60.46
2010 61.67
2011 62.68
2012 63.53
2013 64.25
2014 64.85
2015 65.37
2016 65.81
2017 66.19
2018 66.52
2019 66.82
2020 67.11

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