Russia - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Russia was 66.49 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 68.24 in 2019 and a minimum value of 57.55 in 1994.

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 62.07
1961 62.58
1962 62.96
1963 63.22
1964 63.37
1965 63.43
1966 63.43
1967 63.39
1968 63.31
1969 63.21
1970 63.08
1971 63.24
1972 63.25
1973 63.28
1974 63.13
1975 62.48
1976 62.19
1977 61.83
1978 61.83
1979 61.49
1980 61.39
1981 61.62
1982 62.25
1983 62.16
1984 61.71
1985 62.73
1986 64.78
1987 64.84
1988 64.64
1989 64.24
1990 63.73
1991 63.45
1992 62.00
1993 58.97
1994 57.55
1995 58.12
1996 59.62
1997 60.85
1998 61.22
1999 59.87
2000 59.03
2001 58.92
2002 58.68
2003 58.53
2004 58.91
2005 58.92
2006 60.43
2007 61.46
2008 61.92
2009 62.87
2010 63.09
2011 64.04
2012 64.56
2013 65.13
2014 65.29
2015 65.92
2016 66.50
2017 67.51
2018 67.75
2019 68.24
2020 66.49

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