Life expectancy at birth in Bangladesh was 52.0 years in 1979: 51.0 for women and 52.9 for men, a gap of -1.9 years. 1,347,954 people died; 14.1% of them were 65 or older and 59.6% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1979

Life expectancy at birth

52.0

Women

51.0

Men

52.9

Life expectancy at 65

12.6

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

140.1

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

209.0

Deaths

1,347,954

Deaths per 1,000 people

15.7

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

242

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

280

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1979's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1979

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	148.08	162.33	51.0	52.9
1-4	21.62	20.63	57.9	60.8
5-9	5.67	4.19	58.9	61.9
10-14	2.02	1.62	55.5	58.2
15-19	3.04	2.22	51.1	53.6
20-24	3.82	2.59	46.8	49.2
25-29	4.54	3.36	42.7	44.8
30-34	5.52	3.67	38.6	40.5
35-39	6.14	4.23	34.6	36.2
40-44	6.95	5.75	30.6	31.9
45-49	8.56	8.11	26.6	27.8
50-54	10.60	10.70	22.6	23.8
55-59	16.35	14.79	18.7	20.0
60-64	27.66	24.33	15.1	16.3
65-69	40.11	35.05	12.0	13.1
70-74	62.18	53.03	9.1	10.1
75-79	111.08	91.12	6.5	7.5
80-84	185.61	147.30	4.5	5.4
85-89	299.70	234.97	3.1	3.8
90-94	478.01	375.91	2.0	2.5
95-99	746.48	600.47	1.3	1.7
100+	1000.10	943.49	1.0	1.1

Mortality in Bangladesh by year

Mortality in Bangladesh, 1979

Year

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