Who dies: share of all deaths, by age and sex

Canada

1953

Life expectancy: 69.1

Life expectancy at birth, 1950–2100 · click to pick a year

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-5 -1 1953 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Canada was 69.1 years in 1953: 71.8 for women and 66.7 for men, a gap of 5.1 years. 127,438 people died; 54.0% of them were 65 or older and 13.9% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1953

Life expectancy at birth

69.1

Women

71.8

Men

66.7

Life expectancy at 65

14.4

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

37.9

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

44.4

Deaths

127,438

Deaths per 1,000 people

8.6

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

205

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

132

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1953's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1953

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	33.99	44.12	71.8	66.7
1-4	1.53	1.86	73.3	68.6
5-9	0.52	0.99	69.7	65.1
10-14	0.45	0.76	64.9	60.5
15-19	0.58	1.41	60.0	55.7
20-24	0.78	1.93	55.2	51.1
25-29	1.02	1.66	50.4	46.5
30-34	1.19	1.96	45.6	41.9
35-39	1.78	2.55	40.9	37.3
40-44	2.81	3.89	36.2	32.7
45-49	4.11	6.19	31.7	28.3
50-54	6.42	10.40	27.3	24.1
55-59	9.53	15.73	23.1	20.3
60-64	15.41	24.17	19.1	16.7
65-69	24.22	35.26	15.4	13.5
70-74	39.83	53.69	12.1	10.6
75-79	68.49	83.14	9.2	8.2
80-84	104.53	125.13	6.9	6.1
85-89	166.00	199.01	5.0	4.4
90-94	245.76	278.17	3.7	3.4
95-99	363.25	380.97	2.6	2.5
100+	500.05	499.13	2.0	2.0

Mortality in Canada by year

Mortality in Canada, 1953

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