Life expectancy at birth in Belize was 60.9 years in 1966: 62.5 for women and 59.3 for men, a gap of 3.3 years. 1,139 people died; 26.0% of them were 65 or older and 44.9% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1966

Life expectancy at birth

60.9

Women

62.5

Men

59.3

Life expectancy at 65

13.5

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

85.5

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

114.6

Deaths

1,139

Deaths per 1,000 people

10.6

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

247

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

198

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1966's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1966

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	84.41	97.24	62.6	59.3
1-4	7.96	8.25	66.9	64.2
5-9	2.20	2.25	65.1	62.3
10-14	1.48	1.51	60.8	57.9
15-19	1.85	2.13	56.2	53.4
20-24	2.26	2.91	51.7	48.9
25-29	2.57	3.07	47.2	44.6
30-34	2.99	3.46	42.8	40.2
35-39	3.66	4.30	38.4	35.9
40-44	4.62	5.64	34.1	31.6
45-49	5.91	7.73	29.8	27.4
50-54	8.31	11.23	25.6	23.4
55-59	11.82	16.13	21.6	19.6
60-64	18.66	24.65	17.8	16.0
65-69	29.57	37.78	14.3	12.8
70-74	48.39	59.45	11.1	10.0
75-79	77.17	93.17	8.5	7.5
80-84	120.87	143.59	6.3	5.6
85-89	184.80	215.80	4.7	4.1
90-94	266.26	306.48	3.5	3.1
95-99	369.56	417.59	2.6	2.3
100+	491.04	540.39	2.0	1.9

Mortality in Belize by year

Mortality in Belize, 1966

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