Seychelles - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Seychelles was 72.70 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 40 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 72.70 in 2020 and a minimum value of 62.40 in 1990.

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
1980 65.50
1981 67.70
1982 64.30
1983 65.70
1984 65.70
1985 63.60
1986 64.90
1987 63.70
1988 64.80
1989 62.80
1990 62.40
1991 65.20
1992 65.80
1993 64.20
1994 65.90
1995 65.80
1996 66.00
1997 65.70
1998 67.60
1999 67.40
2000 67.90
2001 67.40
2002 66.60
2003 66.20
2004 69.10
2005 67.40
2006 68.90
2007 68.90
2008 67.70
2009 68.40
2010 69.10
2011 67.70
2012 69.30
2013 69.90
2014 68.40
2015 70.10
2016 68.70
2017 70.30
2018 68.50
2019 69.90
2020 72.70

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