Lower middle income - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Lower middle income was 67.59 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 67.59 in 2020 and a minimum value of 44.69 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 44.69
1961 45.27
1962 45.83
1963 46.39
1964 46.93
1965 47.45
1966 47.95
1967 48.41
1968 48.85
1969 49.26
1970 49.67
1971 50.08
1972 50.51
1973 50.97
1974 51.46
1975 51.96
1976 52.48
1977 52.97
1978 53.45
1979 53.88
1980 54.28
1981 54.66
1982 55.02
1983 55.38
1984 55.75
1985 56.14
1986 56.53
1987 56.94
1988 57.33
1989 57.71
1990 58.09
1991 58.43
1992 58.77
1993 59.09
1994 59.40
1995 59.69
1996 60.01
1997 60.32
1998 60.64
1999 60.93
2000 61.22
2001 61.54
2002 61.87
2003 62.21
2004 62.55
2005 62.91
2006 63.28
2007 63.66
2008 64.05
2009 64.44
2010 64.84
2011 65.20
2012 65.55
2013 65.88
2014 66.19
2015 66.47
2016 66.74
2017 66.99
2018 67.20
2019 67.41
2020 67.59

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