São Tomé and Principe - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in São Tomé and Principe was 68.16 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 68.16 in 2020 and a minimum value of 48.95 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 48.95
1961 49.46
1962 49.96
1963 50.44
1964 50.90
1965 51.36
1966 51.82
1967 52.31
1968 52.81
1969 53.35
1970 53.90
1971 54.48
1972 55.07
1973 55.64
1974 56.20
1975 56.70
1976 57.15
1977 57.53
1978 57.83
1979 58.04
1980 58.16
1981 58.18
1982 58.10
1983 57.95
1984 57.74
1985 57.50
1986 57.23
1987 56.96
1988 56.71
1989 56.51
1990 56.37
1991 56.32
1992 56.34
1993 56.45
1994 56.64
1995 56.91
1996 57.28
1997 57.72
1998 58.23
1999 58.79
2000 59.39
2001 60.01
2002 60.65
2003 61.29
2004 61.92
2005 62.52
2006 63.10
2007 63.66
2008 64.19
2009 64.70
2010 65.17
2011 65.61
2012 66.02
2013 66.40
2014 66.74
2015 67.05
2016 67.32
2017 67.57
2018 67.78
2019 67.98
2020 68.16

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