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

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Upper middle income was 73.37 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 73.37 in 2020 and a minimum value of 47.76 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 47.76
1961 48.27
1962 48.90
1963 49.73
1964 50.77
1965 51.98
1966 53.29
1967 54.62
1968 55.90
1969 57.05
1970 58.08
1971 58.99
1972 59.79
1973 60.53
1974 61.19
1975 61.75
1976 62.27
1977 62.73
1978 63.17
1979 63.52
1980 63.88
1981 64.24
1982 64.59
1983 64.89
1984 65.14
1985 65.47
1986 65.86
1987 66.05
1988 66.20
1989 66.29
1990 66.35
1991 66.43
1992 66.41
1993 66.30
1994 66.35
1995 66.56
1996 66.88
1997 67.23
1998 67.55
1999 67.78
2000 68.06
2001 68.36
2002 68.65
2003 68.93
2004 69.23
2005 69.48
2006 69.81
2007 70.10
2008 70.37
2009 70.67
2010 70.92
2011 71.23
2012 71.52
2013 71.82
2014 72.08
2015 72.36
2016 72.63
2017 72.90
2018 73.12
2019 73.33
2020 73.37

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