The Gambia - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in The Gambia was 60.97 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 60.97 in 2020 and a minimum value of 30.85 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 30.85
1961 31.13
1962 31.47
1963 31.87
1964 32.34
1965 32.90
1966 33.54
1967 34.25
1968 35.02
1969 35.83
1970 36.67
1971 37.53
1972 38.40
1973 39.28
1974 40.14
1975 40.99
1976 41.82
1977 42.66
1978 43.48
1979 44.30
1980 45.11
1981 45.90
1982 46.67
1983 47.41
1984 48.11
1985 48.76
1986 49.34
1987 49.85
1988 50.29
1989 50.68
1990 51.02
1991 51.33
1992 51.65
1993 51.97
1994 52.33
1995 52.71
1996 53.12
1997 53.55
1998 53.99
1999 54.43
2000 54.86
2001 55.28
2002 55.69
2003 56.08
2004 56.46
2005 56.82
2006 57.16
2007 57.49
2008 57.80
2009 58.10
2010 58.39
2011 58.66
2012 58.92
2013 59.15
2014 59.38
2015 59.60
2016 59.84
2017 60.09
2018 60.36
2019 60.66
2020 60.97

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