Europe & Central Asia | Life expectancy at birth, male (years)
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. 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.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Europe & Central Asia
Records
63
Source
Europe & Central Asia | Life expectancy at birth, male (years)
64.48836637 1960
64.72284265 1961
64.56488808 1962
64.86260764 1963
65.34970417 1964
65.30607619 1965
65.4332087 1966
65.39164964 1967
65.30323876 1968
65.02120985 1969
65.43885254 1970
65.58590802 1971
65.8227308 1972
65.93652497 1973
66.09277986 1974
65.98919444 1975
66.10130225 1976
66.2082275 1977
66.26143161 1978
66.34174675 1979
66.46125447 1980
66.7546304 1981
67.0809937 1982
67.12544981 1983
67.23351438 1984
67.52388137 1985
68.20882136 1986
68.42229235 1987
68.48531523 1988
68.53475463 1989
68.4514858 1990
68.38242685 1991
68.05642015 1992
67.5408249 1993
67.57968431 1994
67.72708104 1995
68.26560225 1996
68.77280233 1997
69.13867274 1998
69.08079859 1999
69.30093402 2000
69.59939307 2001
69.74811414 2002
69.90120755 2003
70.33090431 2004
70.49107156 2005
71.05059633 2006
71.46108425 2007
71.79021246 2008
72.24196253 2009
72.58017638 2010
73.06285725 2011
73.32802777 2012
73.7049077 2013
74.02367406 2014
74.03465391 2015
74.37818624 2016
74.67793476 2017
74.81139356 2018
75.1110127 2019
73.8419574 2020
73.50366375 2021
2022
Europe & Central Asia | Life expectancy at birth, male (years)
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. 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.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Europe & Central Asia
Records
63
Source