Tanzania - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Tanzania was 64.01 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 64.01 in 2020 and a minimum value of 42.36 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 42.36
1961 42.60
1962 42.85
1963 43.12
1964 43.42
1965 43.74
1966 44.09
1967 44.46
1968 44.83
1969 45.21
1970 45.59
1971 45.99
1972 46.41
1973 46.83
1974 47.25
1975 47.66
1976 48.03
1977 48.36
1978 48.64
1979 48.86
1980 49.02
1981 49.12
1982 49.18
1983 49.21
1984 49.22
1985 49.18
1986 49.10
1987 48.97
1988 48.80
1989 48.59
1990 48.35
1991 48.10
1992 47.85
1993 47.62
1994 47.44
1995 47.36
1996 47.40
1997 47.58
1998 47.90
1999 48.35
2000 48.94
2001 49.63
2002 50.39
2003 51.18
2004 51.99
2005 52.80
2006 53.60
2007 54.40
2008 55.19
2009 55.98
2010 56.78
2011 57.60
2012 58.45
2013 59.33
2014 60.22
2015 61.08
2016 61.88
2017 62.58
2018 63.17
2019 63.64
2020 64.01

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