Lower middle income | 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.
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The World Bank
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Lower middle income
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63
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Lower middle income | Life expectancy at birth, male (years)
46.43846166 1960
46.77685548 1961
47.14702845 1962
47.49805587 1963
47.89222922 1964
47.34871455 1965
47.77951032 1966
47.98069561 1967
48.91476206 1968
49.31609231 1969
49.31777175 1970
48.09115651 1971
50.28993102 1972
50.85077626 1973
51.25532926 1974
51.88592423 1975
52.36454682 1976
52.86191787 1977
53.21767525 1978
53.65850498 1979
54.08485069 1980
54.40728234 1981
54.78077379 1982
55.22019614 1983
55.69592225 1984
56.09945333 1985
56.53376909 1986
56.88373947 1987
57.20117288 1988
57.61722645 1989
57.88542327 1990
58.08276314 1991
58.45517778 1992
58.70308374 1993
58.95710236 1994
59.23474895 1995
59.54329497 1996
59.89141021 1997
60.31840066 1998
60.77795185 1999
61.03894481 2000
61.33984727 2001
61.71428785 2002
62.01378096 2003
62.31659948 2004
62.62594209 2005
62.9582805 2006
63.18849426 2007
63.34823898 2008
63.74427815 2009
64.10104727 2010
64.51790616 2011
64.90549307 2012
65.29958229 2013
65.78118664 2014
66.21431649 2015
66.62619224 2016
66.9269885 2017
67.16919585 2018
67.32945206 2019
66.66350723 2020
65.03643641 2021
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Lower middle income | 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
Lower middle income
Records
63
Source