Timor-Leste - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Timor-Leste was 67.69 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 67.69 in 2020 and a minimum value of 31.58 in 1978.

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 33.18
1961 33.68
1962 34.18
1963 34.68
1964 35.18
1965 35.72
1966 36.34
1967 37.03
1968 37.76
1969 38.45
1970 38.91
1971 38.92
1972 38.36
1973 37.27
1974 35.76
1975 34.11
1976 32.67
1977 31.76
1978 31.58
1979 32.18
1980 33.49
1981 35.32
1982 37.34
1983 39.27
1984 41.00
1985 42.44
1986 43.58
1987 44.52
1988 45.38
1989 46.18
1990 46.98
1991 47.84
1992 48.79
1993 49.84
1994 50.99
1995 52.20
1996 53.41
1997 54.57
1998 55.62
1999 56.58
2000 57.46
2001 58.33
2002 59.23
2003 60.20
2004 61.23
2005 62.26
2006 63.23
2007 64.09
2008 64.77
2009 65.28
2010 65.63
2011 65.86
2012 66.03
2013 66.20
2014 66.38
2015 66.58
2016 66.82
2017 67.05
2018 67.28
2019 67.49
2020 67.69

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