Asia Mortality 2022: Deaths by Age and Life Expectancy

Life expectancy at birth in Asia was 74.4 years in 2022: 77.0 for women and 72.0 for men, a gap of 5.1 years. 33,349,917 people died; 62.6% of them were 65 or older and 5.4% children under five. The most common age at death was 70-74. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 2022

Life expectancy at birth

74.4

Women

77.0

Men

72.0

Life expectancy at 65

17.1

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

21.9

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

26.7

Deaths

33,349,917

Deaths per 1,000 people

7.0

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

149

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

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2022's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 2022

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	21.02	23.59	77.0	72.0
1-4	1.25	1.21	77.7	72.7
5-9	0.38	0.51	74.0	69.0
10-14	0.35	0.44	69.2	64.2
15-19	0.58	0.83	64.3	59.3
20-24	0.68	1.15	59.5	54.5
25-29	0.84	1.33	54.7	49.8
30-34	0.93	1.56	49.9	45.2
35-39	1.21	2.09	45.1	40.5
40-44	1.80	3.13	40.4	35.9
45-49	2.58	4.49	35.7	31.4
50-54	3.95	6.94	31.1	27.1
55-59	6.39	10.77	26.7	22.9
60-64	10.30	17.33	22.5	19.1
65-69	15.77	26.20	18.5	15.5
70-74	25.32	39.80	14.8	12.4
75-79	42.84	61.32	11.5	9.5
80-84	71.74	99.96	8.6	7.1
85-89	116.18	160.11	6.3	5.1
90-94	191.21	253.97	4.4	3.6
95-99	302.19	377.53	3.1	2.6
100+	453.04	483.40	2.2	2.1

Mortality in Asia by year

Mortality in Asia, 2022

Year

Country