Australia - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Australia was 81.20 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 81.20 in 2020 and a minimum value of 67.60 in 1966.

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 67.79
1961 67.90
1962 67.84
1963 67.78
1964 67.72
1965 67.66
1966 67.60
1967 67.64
1968 67.68
1969 67.72
1970 67.76
1971 67.80
1972 68.16
1973 68.52
1974 68.88
1975 69.24
1976 69.60
1977 69.92
1978 70.24
1979 70.56
1980 70.88
1981 71.20
1982 71.50
1983 71.80
1984 72.10
1985 72.40
1986 72.70
1987 73.02
1988 73.34
1989 73.66
1990 73.98
1991 74.30
1992 74.50
1993 75.00
1994 75.00
1995 75.00
1996 75.20
1997 75.70
1998 75.90
1999 76.20
2000 76.60
2001 77.00
2002 77.40
2003 77.80
2004 78.10
2005 78.50
2006 78.70
2007 79.00
2008 79.20
2009 79.30
2010 79.50
2011 79.70
2012 79.90
2013 80.10
2014 80.30
2015 80.40
2016 80.40
2017 80.50
2018 80.70
2019 80.90
2020 81.20

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