Albania - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Albania was 77.16 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 77.16 in 2020 and a minimum value of 61.31 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 61.31
1961 62.27
1962 63.12
1963 63.81
1964 64.35
1965 64.72
1966 64.96
1967 65.12
1968 65.23
1969 65.35
1970 65.50
1971 65.71
1972 66.00
1973 66.36
1974 66.76
1975 67.19
1976 67.60
1977 67.94
1978 68.20
1979 68.38
1980 68.48
1981 68.53
1982 68.59
1983 68.67
1984 68.79
1985 68.92
1986 69.04
1987 69.12
1988 69.15
1989 69.12
1990 69.07
1991 69.02
1992 69.00
1993 69.04
1994 69.15
1995 69.35
1996 69.63
1997 69.98
1998 70.38
1999 70.80
2000 71.22
2001 71.61
2002 71.95
2003 72.25
2004 72.49
2005 72.71
2006 72.92
2007 73.16
2008 73.44
2009 73.77
2010 74.15
2011 74.55
2012 74.97
2013 75.36
2014 75.73
2015 76.07
2016 76.35
2017 76.60
2018 76.82
2019 77.00
2020 77.16

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