Life expectancy at birth in Bahrain was 40.7 years in 1953: 42.7 for women and 39.1 for men, a gap of 3.6 years. 3,056 people died; 9.6% of them were 65 or older and 62.8% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1953

Life expectancy at birth

40.7

Women

42.7

Men

39.1

Life expectancy at 65

11.3

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

192.3

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

313.8

Deaths

3,056

Deaths per 1,000 people

23.8

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

461

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

349

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1953's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1953

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	212.91	231.50	42.7	39.1
1-4	43.71	40.25	51.4	47.8
5-9	3.49	5.41	56.7	51.7
10-14	3.13	3.37	52.6	48.1
15-19	4.57	5.38	48.4	43.8
20-24	5.52	7.17	44.5	40.0
25-29	6.51	8.27	40.7	36.3
30-34	7.14	9.15	36.9	32.8
35-39	8.23	11.26	33.2	29.2
40-44	9.06	13.59	29.5	25.7
45-49	10.84	16.95	25.7	22.3
50-54	14.24	21.99	22.0	19.1
55-59	19.65	29.43	18.4	16.0
60-64	29.01	41.28	15.1	13.2
65-69	43.22	58.86	12.0	10.6
70-74	66.22	83.49	9.3	8.4
75-79	104.69	120.10	7.0	6.5
80-84	160.18	172.96	5.3	4.9
85-89	226.79	247.82	4.0	3.7
90-94	303.82	335.06	3.1	2.9
95-99	399.39	441.31	2.4	2.2
100+	506.84	555.65	2.0	1.8

Mortality in Bahrain by year

Mortality in Bahrain, 1953

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