Bhutan Mortality 2015: Deaths by Age and Life Expectancy

Life expectancy at birth in Bhutan was 70.8 years in 2015: 72.5 for women and 69.4 for men, a gap of 3.1 years. 4,834 people died; 60.0% of them were 65 or older and 7.5% children under five. The most common age at death was 80-84. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 2015

Life expectancy at birth

70.8

Women

72.5

Men

69.4

Life expectancy at 65

14.1

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

25.6

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

30.6

Deaths

4,834

Deaths per 1,000 people

6.5

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

164

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

124

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2015's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 2015

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	23.72	28.63	72.5	69.4
1-4	1.25	1.31	73.2	70.4
5-9	0.46	0.61	69.6	66.7
10-14	0.38	0.51	64.7	61.9
15-19	0.62	0.96	59.8	57.1
20-24	0.87	1.33	55.0	52.4
25-29	1.07	1.33	50.3	47.7
30-34	1.32	1.50	45.5	43.0
35-39	1.76	1.95	40.8	38.3
40-44	2.49	2.93	36.1	33.6
45-49	3.81	4.81	31.5	29.1
50-54	5.76	7.85	27.1	24.7
55-59	8.83	13.00	22.8	20.6
60-64	14.15	20.72	18.7	16.8
65-69	24.04	33.14	14.9	13.4
70-74	41.57	53.48	11.5	10.3
75-79	71.39	86.19	8.5	7.7
80-84	122.59	139.60	6.2	5.6
85-89	196.10	221.87	4.4	4.0
90-94	298.02	331.46	3.1	2.9
95-99	422.07	461.87	2.3	2.1
100+	563.38	604.52	1.8	1.7

Mortality in Bhutan by year

Mortality in Bhutan, 2015

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