Togo - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Togo was 60.43 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 60.43 in 2020 and a minimum value of 39.37 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 39.37
1961 39.98
1962 40.58
1963 41.18
1964 41.77
1965 42.35
1966 42.93
1967 43.51
1968 44.08
1969 44.64
1970 45.20
1971 45.75
1972 46.31
1973 46.85
1974 47.40
1975 47.94
1976 48.48
1977 49.01
1978 49.54
1979 50.05
1980 50.56
1981 51.06
1982 51.54
1983 52.00
1984 52.44
1985 52.86
1986 53.28
1987 53.67
1988 54.04
1989 54.37
1990 54.63
1991 54.76
1992 54.75
1993 54.60
1994 54.33
1995 53.98
1996 53.59
1997 53.23
1998 52.93
1999 52.74
2000 52.67
2001 52.73
2002 52.89
2003 53.13
2004 53.45
2005 53.85
2006 54.33
2007 54.88
2008 55.49
2009 56.14
2010 56.78
2011 57.39
2012 57.94
2013 58.41
2014 58.81
2015 59.13
2016 59.40
2017 59.64
2018 59.89
2019 60.15
2020 60.43

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