Life expectancy at birth in Bulgaria was 66.6 years in 1957: 68.3 for women and 64.9 for men, a gap of 3.5 years. 65,166 people died; 49.3% of them were 65 or older and 18.4% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1957

Life expectancy at birth

66.6

Women

68.3

Men

64.9

Life expectancy at 65

14.3

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

65.0

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

83.9

Deaths

65,166

Deaths per 1,000 people

8.5

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

177

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

127

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1957's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1957

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	61.26	75.00	68.3	64.9
1-4	5.16	5.14	71.6	68.8
5-9	0.77	0.89	69.0	66.2
10-14	0.55	0.75	64.3	61.5
15-19	0.78	1.19	59.5	56.7
20-24	1.03	1.63	54.7	52.0
25-29	1.34	1.74	50.0	47.4
30-34	1.49	2.10	45.3	42.8
35-39	1.93	2.41	40.6	38.3
40-44	2.69	3.22	36.0	33.7
45-49	3.76	5.05	31.4	29.2
50-54	5.29	8.06	27.0	24.9
55-59	8.80	13.62	22.6	20.8
60-64	15.27	21.47	18.5	17.1
65-69	26.37	35.63	14.8	13.7
70-74	47.59	53.70	11.5	10.9
75-79	72.00	80.34	8.9	8.5
80-84	118.57	124.51	6.7	6.5
85-89	165.58	165.57	5.3	5.2
90-94	217.64	233.21	4.2	4.0
95-99	272.08	284.43	3.5	3.3
100+	349.82	367.93	2.9	2.7

Mortality in Bulgaria by year

Mortality in Bulgaria, 1957

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