Ghana - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Ghana was 63.24 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 63.24 in 2020 and a minimum value of 45.53 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 45.53
1961 45.94
1962 46.32
1963 46.70
1964 47.05
1965 47.37
1966 47.66
1967 47.91
1968 48.11
1969 48.29
1970 48.45
1971 48.62
1972 48.80
1973 49.02
1974 49.27
1975 49.55
1976 49.85
1977 50.16
1978 50.47
1979 50.77
1980 51.08
1981 51.41
1982 51.77
1983 52.16
1984 52.59
1985 53.06
1986 53.57
1987 54.11
1988 54.66
1989 55.19
1990 55.68
1991 56.07
1992 56.35
1993 56.51
1994 56.57
1995 56.53
1996 56.43
1997 56.31
1998 56.22
1999 56.18
2000 56.23
2001 56.38
2002 56.63
2003 56.97
2004 57.38
2005 57.84
2006 58.33
2007 58.82
2008 59.28
2009 59.71
2010 60.10
2011 60.46
2012 60.80
2013 61.14
2014 61.47
2015 61.81
2016 62.13
2017 62.44
2018 62.72
2019 62.99
2020 63.24

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