Life expectancy at birth in Bahrain was 62.3 years in 1968: 64.0 for women and 60.8 for men, a gap of 3.2 years. 1,895 people died; 20.3% of them were 65 or older and 46.5% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1968

Life expectancy at birth

62.3

Women

64.0

Men

60.8

Life expectancy at 65

12.9

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

72.4

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

93.5

Deaths

1,895

Deaths per 1,000 people

8.6

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

248

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

192

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1968's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1968

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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Age	Death rate, women (‰)	Death rate, men (‰)	Years left, women	Years left, men
0	72.90	79.84	64.0	60.8
1-4	5.91	5.63	67.8	64.8
5-9	1.25	1.66	65.3	62.2
10-14	0.91	1.08	60.7	57.7
15-19	1.51	1.95	56.0	53.0
20-24	1.95	2.66	51.4	48.5
25-29	2.35	2.83	46.9	44.1
30-34	2.71	3.12	42.4	39.7
35-39	3.35	3.99	38.0	35.3
40-44	4.25	5.39	33.6	31.0
45-49	5.84	7.81	29.2	26.7
50-54	8.33	11.60	25.0	22.7
55-59	12.21	17.61	21.0	18.9
60-64	18.91	26.79	17.1	15.4
65-69	30.52	40.94	13.6	12.2
70-74	51.28	64.12	10.4	9.4
75-79	87.98	101.90	7.7	7.1
80-84	145.70	159.83	5.5	5.2
85-89	220.06	240.79	4.1	3.8
90-94	310.07	337.80	3.1	2.8
95-99	419.16	450.75	2.3	2.2
100+	541.39	573.76	1.9	1.7

Mortality in Bahrain by year

Mortality in Bahrain, 1968

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