Life expectancy at birth in Belize was 52.2 years in 1954: 54.1 for women and 50.3 for men, a gap of 3.8 years. 1,253 people died; 16.3% of them were 65 or older and 50.5% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1954

Life expectancy at birth

52.2

Women

54.1

Men

50.3

Life expectancy at 65

12.4

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

118.3

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

168.4

Deaths

1,253

Deaths per 1,000 people

16.1

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

372

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

309

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1954's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1954

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	118.08	139.43	54.1	50.3
1-4	14.05	15.42	59.7	56.6
5-9	3.75	4.06	59.1	56.1
10-14	2.55	2.66	55.1	52.2
15-19	3.22	3.61	50.8	47.9
20-24	4.19	5.18	46.6	43.7
25-29	5.01	5.85	42.5	39.8
30-34	5.83	6.75	38.5	35.9
35-39	6.92	8.23	34.6	32.0
40-44	8.23	10.17	30.7	28.3
45-49	9.87	12.90	26.9	24.6
50-54	13.06	17.27	23.2	21.1
55-59	17.64	23.02	19.5	17.7
60-64	26.58	33.39	16.1	14.6
65-69	39.58	47.97	13.0	11.8
70-74	58.91	69.82	10.3	9.3
75-79	86.32	102.70	8.1	7.2
80-84	127.98	152.03	6.1	5.4
85-89	193.26	225.68	4.5	4.0
90-94	274.44	315.95	3.4	3.0
95-99	376.80	425.85	2.6	2.3
100+	495.20	545.20	2.0	1.8

Mortality in Belize by year

Mortality in Belize, 1954

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