Life expectancy at birth in Bahrain was 72.5 years in 1988: 73.4 for women and 71.7 for men, a gap of 1.7 years. 1,568 people died; 37.6% of them were 65 or older and 20.4% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1988

Life expectancy at birth

72.5

Women

73.4

Men

71.7

Life expectancy at 65

14.5

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

19.8

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

23.6

Deaths

1,568

Deaths per 1,000 people

3.3

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

130

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

117

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1988's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1988

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.

WomenMen

Show the life table data

Age	Death rate, women (‰)	Death rate, men (‰)	Years left, women	Years left, men
0	19.21	21.08	73.4	71.7
1-4	1.01	0.95	73.8	72.3
5-9	0.47	0.46	70.1	68.5
10-14	0.32	0.31	65.3	63.7
15-19	0.57	0.68	60.4	58.8
20-24	0.79	0.91	55.5	54.0
25-29	0.98	0.91	50.8	49.2
30-34	1.22	1.01	46.0	44.4
35-39	1.63	1.35	41.3	39.6
40-44	2.33	2.11	36.6	34.9
45-49	3.57	3.67	32.0	30.2
50-54	5.45	6.33	27.5	25.7
55-59	8.36	10.88	23.2	21.5
60-64	13.47	17.89	19.1	17.5
65-69	22.95	29.20	15.2	13.9
70-74	39.87	48.90	11.7	10.7
75-79	68.49	81.54	8.8	8.0
80-84	116.93	135.03	6.3	5.8
85-89	190.56	215.46	4.5	4.1
90-94	291.20	321.14	3.2	2.9
95-99	418.75	447.80	2.3	2.2
100+	562.94	586.96	1.8	1.7

Mortality in Bahrain by year

Mortality in Bahrain, 1988

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