Life expectancy at birth in Algeria was 50.6 years in 1978: 51.8 for women and 49.5 for men, a gap of 2.3 years. 270,981 people died; 17.5% of them were 65 or older and 48.3% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1978

Life expectancy at birth

50.6

Women

51.8

Men

49.5

Life expectancy at 65

11.4

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

123.1

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

173.9

Deaths

270,981

Deaths per 1,000 people

15.5

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

384

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

328

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1978's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1978

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	128.36	140.90	51.8	49.5
1-4	15.34	14.70	57.7	55.7
5-9	4.48	4.33	57.2	55.0
10-14	2.93	2.76	53.5	51.2
15-19	4.05	4.24	49.2	46.8
20-24	5.02	6.16	45.2	42.8
25-29	5.66	6.19	41.3	39.0
30-34	6.47	6.72	37.4	35.2
35-39	7.47	8.06	33.5	31.3
40-44	8.71	10.15	29.7	27.5
45-49	10.19	13.12	25.9	23.8
50-54	13.44	17.77	22.2	20.2
55-59	18.30	24.25	18.5	16.9
60-64	28.11	35.79	15.0	13.7
65-69	42.72	52.48	11.9	10.9
70-74	69.23	80.47	9.2	8.4
75-79	107.00	121.06	6.9	6.4
80-84	160.99	180.61	5.2	4.8
85-89	232.76	260.09	3.9	3.6
90-94	318.88	352.57	3.0	2.7
95-99	423.21	464.02	2.3	2.1
100+	538.59	580.92	1.9	1.7

Mortality in Algeria by year

Mortality in Algeria, 1978

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