Turkmenistan - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Turkmenistan was 64.81 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 64.81 in 2020 and a minimum value of 50.97 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 50.97
1961 51.38
1962 51.80
1963 52.21
1964 52.63
1965 53.05
1966 53.45
1967 53.84
1968 54.21
1969 54.55
1970 54.87
1971 55.16
1972 55.42
1973 55.65
1974 55.87
1975 56.08
1976 56.30
1977 56.54
1978 56.79
1979 57.07
1980 57.36
1981 57.68
1982 58.00
1983 58.31
1984 58.61
1985 58.86
1986 59.04
1987 59.15
1988 59.19
1989 59.17
1990 59.10
1991 59.01
1992 58.91
1993 58.85
1994 58.82
1995 58.85
1996 58.93
1997 59.05
1998 59.21
1999 59.40
2000 59.62
2001 59.89
2002 60.19
2003 60.52
2004 60.88
2005 61.26
2006 61.65
2007 62.04
2008 62.44
2009 62.81
2010 63.16
2011 63.47
2012 63.73
2013 63.96
2014 64.14
2015 64.28
2016 64.40
2017 64.50
2018 64.60
2019 64.71
2020 64.81

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