Life expectancy at birth in Algeria was 42.7 years in 1966: 43.2 for women and 42.3 for men, a gap of 0.8 years. 285,292 people died; 15.5% of them were 65 or older and 50.9% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1966

Life expectancy at birth

42.7

Women

43.2

Men

42.3

Life expectancy at 65

11.0

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

159.8

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

242.9

Deaths

285,292

Deaths per 1,000 people

22.7

Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)

464

Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)

424

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1966's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1966

Deaths per 1,000 people per year in each age group. Logarithmic scale: each gridline is ten times the one below. Hover for exact values.

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Show the life table data

Age	Death rate, women (‰)	Death rate, men (‰)	Years left, women	Years left, men
0	172.54	187.02	43.2	42.4
1-4	27.31	25.40	50.0	49.7
5-9	7.90	6.75	51.5	50.8
10-14	5.06	4.03	48.5	47.4
15-19	6.83	5.78	44.7	43.4
20-24	8.49	8.86	41.1	39.5
25-29	9.36	9.15	37.8	36.2
30-34	10.27	9.90	34.5	32.8
35-39	11.15	11.52	31.2	29.3
40-44	12.17	13.85	27.8	25.9
45-49	13.17	16.74	24.4	22.6
50-54	16.69	21.33	20.9	19.4
55-59	22.05	27.39	17.5	16.3
60-64	33.15	39.12	14.2	13.3
65-69	48.54	55.68	11.3	10.6
70-74	76.16	84.35	8.8	8.2
75-79	113.52	124.97	6.7	6.3
80-84	167.56	185.55	5.1	4.7
85-89	237.38	262.56	3.9	3.5
90-94	321.55	352.56	3.0	2.7
95-99	423.67	462.60	2.3	2.1
100+	536.11	577.50	1.9	1.7

Mortality in Algeria by year

Mortality in Algeria, 1966

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