Kenya - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Kenya was 64.60 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 64.60 in 2020 and a minimum value of 45.00 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 45.00
1961 45.60
1962 46.19
1963 46.77
1964 47.34
1965 47.89
1966 48.43
1967 48.98
1968 49.53
1969 50.09
1970 50.65
1971 51.22
1972 51.79
1973 52.35
1974 52.90
1975 53.45
1976 54.00
1977 54.57
1978 55.13
1979 55.67
1980 56.16
1981 56.59
1982 56.94
1983 57.17
1984 57.27
1985 57.24
1986 57.05
1987 56.73
1988 56.29
1989 55.74
1990 55.10
1991 54.35
1992 53.53
1993 52.67
1994 51.82
1995 51.00
1996 50.24
1997 49.59
1998 49.07
1999 48.73
2000 48.66
2001 48.91
2002 49.48
2003 50.36
2004 51.50
2005 52.82
2006 54.22
2007 55.59
2008 56.86
2009 57.98
2010 58.93
2011 59.74
2012 60.47
2013 61.16
2014 61.82
2015 62.45
2016 63.03
2017 63.54
2018 63.97
2019 64.31
2020 64.60

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