Ukraine - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Ukraine was 66.39 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 67.02 in 2017 and a minimum value of 61.22 in 1995.

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 65.64
1961 66.08
1962 66.41
1963 66.65
1964 66.80
1965 66.87
1966 66.88
1967 66.83
1968 66.73
1969 66.59
1970 66.42
1971 66.23
1972 66.01
1973 65.76
1974 65.50
1975 65.24
1976 64.97
1977 64.71
1978 64.47
1979 64.26
1980 64.13
1981 64.12
1982 64.25
1983 64.50
1984 64.83
1985 65.19
1986 65.48
1987 66.30
1988 66.40
1989 66.10
1990 65.60
1991 64.62
1992 63.81
1993 63.16
1994 62.39
1995 61.22
1996 61.52
1997 62.23
1998 63.17
1999 62.62
2000 62.10
2001 62.32
2002 62.70
2003 62.64
2004 62.60
2005 62.23
2006 62.38
2007 62.51
2008 62.51
2009 63.79
2010 65.28
2011 65.98
2012 66.11
2013 66.34
2014 66.25
2015 66.37
2016 66.73
2017 67.02
2018 66.69
2019 66.92
2020 66.39

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