Suriname - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Suriname was 68.58 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 68.58 in 2020 and a minimum value of 57.93 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 57.93
1961 58.26
1962 58.58
1963 58.88
1964 59.18
1965 59.48
1966 59.77
1967 60.04
1968 60.31
1969 60.56
1970 60.81
1971 61.04
1972 61.27
1973 61.49
1974 61.71
1975 61.93
1976 62.16
1977 62.39
1978 62.62
1979 62.85
1980 63.08
1981 63.29
1982 63.48
1983 63.65
1984 63.80
1985 63.92
1986 64.03
1987 64.13
1988 64.23
1989 64.32
1990 64.41
1991 64.48
1992 64.55
1993 64.59
1994 64.63
1995 64.64
1996 64.64
1997 64.63
1998 64.61
1999 64.61
2000 64.64
2001 64.72
2002 64.87
2003 65.09
2004 65.37
2005 65.70
2006 66.06
2007 66.43
2008 66.77
2009 67.08
2010 67.34
2011 67.55
2012 67.72
2013 67.86
2014 67.98
2015 68.09
2016 68.18
2017 68.27
2018 68.37
2019 68.47
2020 68.58

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