Eritrea - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Eritrea was 64.50 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 64.50 in 2020 and a minimum value of 36.97 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 36.97
1961 37.61
1962 38.21
1963 38.77
1964 39.27
1965 39.72
1966 40.12
1967 40.50
1968 40.85
1969 41.20
1970 41.55
1971 41.91
1972 42.27
1973 42.64
1974 43.01
1975 43.38
1976 43.74
1977 44.09
1978 44.42
1979 44.73
1980 45.03
1981 45.32
1982 45.60
1983 45.88
1984 46.16
1985 46.44
1986 46.73
1987 47.01
1988 47.31
1989 47.62
1990 47.96
1991 48.36
1992 48.82
1993 49.35
1994 49.94
1995 50.57
1996 51.20
1997 51.80
1998 52.37
1999 52.91
2000 53.43
2001 53.97
2002 54.56
2003 55.22
2004 55.94
2005 56.71
2006 57.49
2007 58.26
2008 58.97
2009 59.61
2010 60.19
2011 60.71
2012 61.20
2013 61.67
2014 62.12
2015 62.57
2016 62.99
2017 63.40
2018 63.79
2019 64.15
2020 64.50

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