Tajikistan - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Tajikistan was 69.12 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 69.12 in 2020 and a minimum value of 49.09 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 49.09
1961 49.39
1962 49.68
1963 49.97
1964 50.27
1965 50.56
1966 50.88
1967 51.21
1968 51.57
1969 51.95
1970 52.34
1971 52.75
1972 53.17
1973 53.58
1974 53.97
1975 54.32
1976 54.61
1977 54.84
1978 55.02
1979 55.15
1980 55.28
1981 55.47
1982 55.75
1983 56.12
1984 56.55
1985 56.96
1986 57.23
1987 57.29
1988 57.12
1989 56.73
1990 56.24
1991 55.75
1992 55.42
1993 55.33
1994 55.54
1995 56.02
1996 56.74
1997 57.58
1998 58.46
1999 59.33
2000 60.17
2001 60.97
2002 61.77
2003 62.55
2004 63.32
2005 64.04
2006 64.70
2007 65.28
2008 65.78
2009 66.20
2010 66.55
2011 66.85
2012 67.13
2013 67.40
2014 67.68
2015 67.96
2016 68.23
2017 68.49
2018 68.73
2019 68.94
2020 69.12

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