Nepal - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Nepal was 69.52 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 69.52 in 2020 and a minimum value of 35.55 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 35.55
1961 35.91
1962 36.32
1963 36.78
1964 37.29
1965 37.83
1966 38.40
1967 38.99
1968 39.58
1969 40.16
1970 40.74
1971 41.30
1972 41.85
1973 42.40
1974 42.95
1975 43.50
1976 44.06
1977 44.63
1978 45.21
1979 45.81
1980 46.43
1981 47.07
1982 47.73
1983 48.41
1984 49.10
1985 49.82
1986 50.56
1987 51.33
1988 52.11
1989 52.91
1990 53.72
1991 54.54
1992 55.35
1993 56.15
1994 56.93
1995 57.69
1996 58.43
1997 59.15
1998 59.84
1999 60.52
2000 61.17
2001 61.79
2002 62.38
2003 62.94
2004 63.48
2005 64.00
2006 64.49
2007 64.96
2008 65.42
2009 65.86
2010 66.29
2011 66.70
2012 67.09
2013 67.45
2014 67.79
2015 68.11
2016 68.42
2017 68.71
2018 68.99
2019 69.26
2020 69.52

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