IDA blend | 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
IDA blend
Records
63
Source
IDA blend | Life expectancy at birth, male (years)
42.66106751 1960
43.28011677 1961
44.24675592 1962
44.84032066 1963
45.38986925 1964
45.9137155 1965
46.62649373 1966
46.48164446 1967
47.31632046 1968
47.86962231 1969
48.8487544 1970
46.8958077 1971
49.83804088 1972
50.29026834 1973
50.58876021 1974
51.034379 1975
51.38843514 1976
51.60990993 1977
51.86382365 1978
52.13805511 1979
52.66014529 1980
53.10440318 1981
53.28203684 1982
53.59514214 1983
53.75520505 1984
53.90721597 1985
53.98804239 1986
53.85447869 1987
53.84273796 1988
53.92898399 1989
53.90912587 1990
53.84079796 1991
53.79367604 1992
53.67797248 1993
53.5661175 1994
53.31904539 1995
53.423688 1996
53.41804675 1997
53.74852736 1998
54.17613273 1999
54.68603817 2000
54.95697182 2001
55.32857426 2002
55.62802886 2003
55.86837542 2004
55.8821265 2005
56.55918623 2006
56.71435255 2007
56.96791982 2008
57.29456427 2009
57.63460541 2010
57.99263356 2011
58.18830507 2012
58.46295854 2013
58.60539767 2014
58.82628602 2015
59.10753393 2016
59.31828935 2017
59.54308477 2018
59.83780749 2019
59.364814 2020
59.04708374 2021
2022
IDA blend | 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
IDA blend
Records
63
Source