Kazakhstan - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Kazakhstan was 67.09 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 68.84 in 2018 and a minimum value of 53.23 in 1960.

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 53.23
1961 53.65
1962 54.06
1963 54.48
1964 54.90
1965 55.31
1966 55.71
1967 56.10
1968 56.47
1969 56.82
1970 57.14
1971 57.42
1972 57.68
1973 57.92
1974 58.14
1975 58.35
1976 58.56
1977 58.78
1978 59.03
1979 59.30
1980 61.60
1981 61.95
1982 62.30
1983 63.15
1984 64.00
1985 64.00
1986 64.45
1987 64.90
1988 64.80
1989 63.90
1990 63.80
1991 62.60
1992 62.40
1993 60.10
1994 59.70
1995 58.00
1996 58.00
1997 58.40
1998 59.00
1999 60.60
2000 60.20
2001 60.50
2002 60.70
2003 60.50
2004 60.60
2005 60.30
2006 60.60
2007 60.70
2008 61.90
2009 63.55
2010 63.55
2011 63.85
2012 64.74
2013 65.91
2014 66.90
2015 67.49
2016 67.99
2017 68.72
2018 68.84
2019 68.82
2020 67.09

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