Micronesia - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Micronesia was 66.34 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 66.34 in 2020 and a minimum value of 52.74 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 52.74
1961 53.19
1962 53.65
1963 54.11
1964 54.57
1965 55.03
1966 55.48
1967 55.93
1968 56.37
1969 56.80
1970 57.23
1971 57.66
1972 58.08
1973 58.50
1974 58.92
1975 59.32
1976 59.70
1977 60.06
1978 60.39
1979 60.67
1980 60.92
1981 61.14
1982 61.32
1983 61.47
1984 61.60
1985 61.72
1986 61.84
1987 61.94
1988 62.05
1989 62.16
1990 62.27
1991 62.37
1992 62.46
1993 62.53
1994 62.60
1995 62.65
1996 62.71
1997 62.77
1998 62.85
1999 62.94
2000 63.05
2001 63.19
2002 63.36
2003 63.53
2004 63.73
2005 63.93
2006 64.13
2007 64.33
2008 64.52
2009 64.70
2010 64.87
2011 65.03
2012 65.19
2013 65.36
2014 65.52
2015 65.69
2016 65.84
2017 65.99
2018 66.12
2019 66.23
2020 66.34

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