Slovenia - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Slovenia was 77.80 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 78.70 in 2019 and a minimum value of 64.80 in 1969.

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 66.10
1961 66.10
1962 66.10
1963 65.50
1964 65.20
1965 65.00
1966 65.50
1967 66.00
1968 65.60
1969 64.80
1970 65.00
1971 65.20
1972 65.40
1973 65.60
1974 66.60
1975 66.70
1976 66.60
1977 66.80
1978 66.80
1979 67.00
1980 67.30
1981 67.40
1982 67.20
1983 66.20
1984 67.00
1985 67.40
1986 67.90
1987 68.10
1988 68.30
1989 68.90
1990 69.40
1991 69.50
1992 69.50
1993 69.40
1994 69.60
1995 70.30
1996 70.80
1997 71.00
1998 71.10
1999 71.40
2000 71.90
2001 72.10
2002 72.30
2003 73.20
2004 73.50
2005 74.10
2006 74.55
2007 75.00
2008 75.40
2009 75.80
2010 76.30
2011 76.80
2012 77.10
2013 77.20
2014 78.20
2015 77.80
2016 78.20
2017 78.20
2018 78.50
2019 78.70
2020 77.80

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