Life expectancy at birth in Azerbaijan was 60.5 years in 1978: 63.9 for women and 56.7 for men, a gap of 7.2 years. 55,616 people died; 32.0% of them were 65 or older and 33.8% 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

60.5

Women

63.9

Men

56.7

Life expectancy at 65

12.5

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

87.5

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

113.4

Deaths

55,616

Deaths per 1,000 people

9.2

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

322

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

162

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	86.45	99.79	63.9	56.7
1-4	7.12	7.33	68.6	61.5
5-9	0.80	1.77	66.5	59.3
10-14	0.60	1.30	61.8	54.8
15-19	0.80	1.89	56.9	50.1
20-24	1.14	2.64	52.2	45.6
25-29	1.38	3.26	47.5	41.2
30-34	1.76	4.33	42.8	36.8
35-39	2.41	5.71	38.1	32.6
40-44	3.41	7.93	33.5	28.4
45-49	4.88	11.01	29.1	24.5
50-54	7.62	16.68	24.7	20.7
55-59	11.95	24.00	20.6	17.3
60-64	19.42	33.98	16.7	14.2
65-69	31.90	48.82	13.1	11.3
70-74	56.54	74.78	10.0	8.8
75-79	95.16	114.17	7.4	6.6
80-84	150.16	171.93	5.4	4.9
85-89	223.28	252.08	4.0	3.6
90-94	309.19	348.95	3.0	2.7
95-99	436.22	480.84	2.2	2.0
100+	654.19	670.83	1.5	1.5

Mortality in Azerbaijan by year

Mortality in Azerbaijan, 1978

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