Life expectancy at birth in Bangladesh was 57.6 years in 1994: 57.6 for women and 57.7 for men, a gap of -0.0 years. 1,265,704 people died; 28.0% of them were 65 or older and 35.4% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1994

Life expectancy at birth

57.6

Women

57.6

Men

57.7

Life expectancy at 65

11.2

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

88.8

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

119.9

Deaths

1,265,704

Deaths per 1,000 people

10.5

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

263

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

267

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1994's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1994

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	89.73	99.54	57.6	57.7
1-4	8.81	8.59	61.9	62.5
5-9	3.51	3.02	60.1	60.7
10-14	1.37	1.43	56.1	56.6
15-19	2.03	1.75	51.5	51.9
20-24	2.81	2.03	47.0	47.4
25-29	3.54	2.45	42.6	42.8
30-34	3.52	2.79	38.3	38.3
35-39	4.27	3.52	34.0	33.8
40-44	7.02	5.39	29.6	29.4
45-49	8.71	8.34	25.6	25.1
50-54	11.30	13.16	21.6	21.1
55-59	18.91	21.37	17.7	17.3
60-64	31.38	33.87	14.2	14.0
65-69	45.46	48.04	11.2	11.1
70-74	70.30	72.12	8.4	8.5
75-79	125.76	124.32	6.0	6.1
80-84	209.35	199.33	4.1	4.3
85-89	335.04	310.10	2.8	3.0
90-94	519.73	465.87	1.9	2.1
95-99	768.05	677.67	1.3	1.5
100+	1000.40	971.72	1.0	1.0

Mortality in Bangladesh by year

Mortality in Bangladesh, 1994

Year

Country