Mali - Life expectancy at birth, total (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, total (years) in Mali was 59.69 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 59.69 in 2020 and a minimum value of 28.20 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, or derived from male and female life expectancy at birth from sources such as: (2) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (3)

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Year Value
1960 28.20
1961 28.35
1962 28.54
1963 28.78
1964 29.10
1965 29.49
1966 29.96
1967 30.50
1968 31.09
1969 31.72
1970 32.39
1971 33.08
1972 33.78
1973 34.49
1974 35.21
1975 35.92
1976 36.65
1977 37.39
1978 38.14
1979 38.91
1980 39.68
1981 40.44
1982 41.17
1983 41.88
1984 42.55
1985 43.17
1986 43.76
1987 44.32
1988 44.84
1989 45.32
1990 45.75
1991 46.08
1992 46.31
1993 46.45
1994 46.52
1995 46.57
1996 46.66
1997 46.82
1998 47.10
1999 47.52
2000 48.07
2001 48.76
2002 49.54
2003 50.37
2004 51.22
2005 52.06
2006 52.84
2007 53.55
2008 54.19
2009 54.76
2010 55.25
2011 55.70
2012 56.14
2013 56.58
2014 57.04
2015 57.51
2016 57.99
2017 58.45
2018 58.89
2019 59.31
2020 59.69

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