Syrian Arab Republic - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Syrian Arab Republic was 69.39 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 72.30 in 2005 and a minimum value of 50.67 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 50.67
1961 51.26
1962 51.85
1963 52.47
1964 53.10
1965 53.77
1966 54.46
1967 55.19
1968 55.94
1969 56.72
1970 57.51
1971 58.31
1972 59.09
1973 59.86
1974 60.60
1975 61.32
1976 62.01
1977 62.67
1978 63.32
1979 63.94
1980 64.55
1981 65.13
1982 65.69
1983 66.23
1984 66.73
1985 67.21
1986 67.65
1987 68.06
1988 68.43
1989 68.77
1990 69.07
1991 69.35
1992 69.59
1993 69.82
1994 70.02
1995 70.21
1996 70.38
1997 70.55
1998 70.71
1999 70.86
2000 71.03
2001 71.27
2002 71.56
2003 71.87
2004 72.16
2005 72.30
2006 72.14
2007 71.61
2008 70.72
2009 69.51
2010 68.11
2011 66.70
2012 65.45
2013 64.53
2014 64.03
2015 64.02
2016 64.51
2017 65.41
2018 66.58
2019 67.94
2020 69.39

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