Zimbabwe - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Zimbabwe was 60.04 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 60.04 in 2020 and a minimum value of 41.37 in 2004.

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 51.40
1961 51.86
1962 52.32
1963 52.78
1964 53.22
1965 53.64
1966 54.03
1967 54.39
1968 54.71
1969 54.99
1970 55.24
1971 55.45
1972 55.65
1973 55.82
1974 56.00
1975 56.21
1976 56.47
1977 56.80
1978 57.18
1979 57.59
1980 58.02
1981 58.44
1982 58.80
1983 59.06
1984 59.18
1985 59.09
1986 58.77
1987 58.19
1988 57.38
1989 56.34
1990 55.12
1991 53.72
1992 52.21
1993 50.66
1994 49.14
1995 47.69
1996 46.36
1997 45.17
1998 44.14
1999 43.28
2000 42.61
2001 42.09
2002 41.70
2003 41.44
2004 41.37
2005 41.57
2006 42.19
2007 43.28
2008 44.81
2009 46.72
2010 48.88
2011 51.12
2012 53.24
2013 55.11
2014 56.63
2015 57.78
2016 58.57
2017 59.11
2018 59.50
2019 59.80
2020 60.04

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