Romania - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Romania was 70.50 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 71.90 in 2019 and a minimum value of 63.86 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 63.86
1961 64.59
1962 65.15
1963 65.50
1964 65.65
1965 65.63
1966 65.54
1967 65.46
1968 65.48
1969 65.61
1970 65.85
1971 66.27
1972 66.28
1973 66.83
1974 67.29
1975 67.37
1976 67.45
1977 67.42
1978 67.10
1979 66.68
1980 66.53
1981 66.70
1982 66.80
1983 66.98
1984 66.81
1985 66.78
1986 66.55
1987 66.30
1988 66.51
1989 66.56
1990 66.59
1991 66.56
1992 66.56
1993 66.10
1994 65.90
1995 65.70
1996 65.30
1997 65.20
1998 66.10
1999 67.00
2000 67.70
2001 67.60
2002 67.40
2003 67.70
2004 68.00
2005 68.40
2006 68.70
2007 69.20
2008 69.20
2009 69.70
2010 69.80
2011 70.80
2012 70.90
2013 71.60
2014 71.30
2015 71.40
2016 71.60
2017 71.70
2018 71.70
2019 71.90
2020 70.50

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