Life expectancy at birth in Bosnia and Herzegovina was 60.5 years in 1963: 62.3 for women and 58.6 for men, a gap of 3.7 years. 34,364 people died; 32.5% 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, 1963

Life expectancy at birth

60.5

Women

62.3

Men

58.6

Life expectancy at 65

11.1

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

92.0

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

110.0

Deaths

34,364

Deaths per 1,000 people

9.9

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

246

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

198

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1963's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1963

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	85.62	110.53	62.3	58.6
1-4	4.47	5.55	66.8	64.3
5-9	0.62	0.80	64.0	61.7
10-14	0.53	0.83	59.2	56.9
15-19	0.94	1.13	54.3	52.1
20-24	1.62	1.62	49.6	47.4
25-29	2.08	2.01	44.9	42.8
30-34	2.60	2.76	40.4	38.2
35-39	3.10	2.96	35.9	33.7
40-44	4.15	4.87	31.4	29.1
45-49	5.27	7.23	27.0	24.8
50-54	8.94	12.23	22.7	20.6
55-59	15.23	21.42	18.6	16.7
60-64	26.00	36.31	14.8	13.3
65-69	41.25	50.04	11.5	10.5
70-74	73.35	81.22	8.6	7.8
75-79	117.10	147.17	6.3	5.4
80-84	190.68	233.37	4.4	3.8
85-89	303.48	357.91	3.1	2.7
90-94	468.55	526.58	2.1	1.9
95-99	656.10	704.22	1.5	1.4
100+	804.76	835.49	1.2	1.2

Mortality in Bosnia and Herzegovina by year

Mortality in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1963

Year

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