Zambia - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Zambia was 61.13 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 61.13 in 2020 and a minimum value of 41.38 in 1998.

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 45.31
1961 45.71
1962 46.07
1963 46.40
1964 46.69
1965 46.97
1966 47.26
1967 47.58
1968 47.93
1969 48.31
1970 48.71
1971 49.13
1972 49.53
1973 49.90
1974 50.22
1975 50.50
1976 50.73
1977 50.93
1978 51.11
1979 51.25
1980 51.37
1981 51.49
1982 51.60
1983 51.68
1984 51.70
1985 51.60
1986 51.31
1987 50.79
1988 50.05
1989 49.11
1990 48.00
1991 46.77
1992 45.51
1993 44.32
1994 43.26
1995 42.41
1996 41.81
1997 41.47
1998 41.38
1999 41.53
2000 41.93
2001 42.54
2002 43.33
2003 44.25
2004 45.27
2005 46.40
2006 47.64
2007 49.00
2008 50.46
2009 51.97
2010 53.48
2011 54.91
2012 56.22
2013 57.37
2014 58.33
2015 59.11
2016 59.70
2017 60.16
2018 60.53
2019 60.85
2020 61.13

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