Mortality in Brazil, 1961

Brazil
1961
Life expectancy: 53.6
Who dies: share of all deaths, by age and sex
Hover a bar for the number of deaths. Top-heavy where people live long lives, wide at the bottom where many children die.
Life expectancy at birth, 1950–2100 · click to pick a year

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-5 -1   1961  +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Brazil was 53.6 years in 1961: 56.0 for women and 51.4 for men, a gap of 4.5 years. 989,676 people died; 13.7% of them were 65 or older and 52.9% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
53.6
Women
56.0
Men
51.4
Life expectancy at 65
12.1
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
126.0
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
164.7
Deaths
989,676
Deaths per 1,000 people
13.3
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
347
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
273
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1961's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.
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
AgeDeath rate, women (‰)Death rate, men (‰)Years left, womenYears left, men
0125.02151.0756.051.4
1-410.6412.1362.258.5
5-92.352.8860.857.3
10-142.002.1556.553.1
15-192.853.2852.148.7
20-243.754.6947.844.4
25-294.285.0543.640.4
30-344.915.7639.536.4
35-395.677.0135.432.4
40-446.688.9631.428.5
45-498.2911.6627.424.6
50-5411.4316.1723.421.0
55-5915.9222.5819.617.5
60-6424.2733.1116.014.3
65-6936.9848.4012.811.4
70-7459.2072.789.98.9
75-7994.38111.677.46.7
80-84149.28168.695.45.0
85-89224.31252.604.03.6
90-94336.79375.962.82.6
95-99468.80517.352.11.9
100+610.95660.241.61.5