Life expectancy at birth in Belize was 60.4 years in 1965: 62.0 for women and 58.8 for men, a gap of 3.3 years. 1,141 people died; 25.4% of them were 65 or older and 45.5% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1965

Life expectancy at birth

60.4

Women

62.0

Men

58.8

Life expectancy at 65

13.5

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

88.3

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

118.9

Deaths

1,141

Deaths per 1,000 people

10.9

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

250

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

202

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1965's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1965

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	87.32	100.64	62.0	58.8
1-4	8.41	8.72	66.6	63.8
5-9	2.31	2.37	64.8	62.0
10-14	1.55	1.59	60.5	57.8
15-19	1.93	2.24	56.0	53.2
20-24	2.35	3.05	51.5	48.8
25-29	2.67	3.20	47.1	44.5
30-34	3.10	3.57	42.7	40.1
35-39	3.77	4.39	38.3	35.8
40-44	4.74	5.72	34.0	31.6
45-49	6.03	7.79	29.7	27.4
50-54	8.45	11.27	25.5	23.4
55-59	11.99	16.15	21.5	19.6
60-64	18.89	24.67	17.7	16.0
65-69	29.89	37.87	14.2	12.8
70-74	48.81	59.72	11.1	9.9
75-79	77.68	93.69	8.5	7.5
80-84	121.45	144.28	6.3	5.6
85-89	185.49	216.60	4.7	4.1
90-94	266.93	307.26	3.5	3.1
95-99	370.16	418.27	2.6	2.3
100+	491.38	540.77	2.0	1.9

Mortality in Belize by year

Mortality in Belize, 1965

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