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

Canada

1963

Life expectancy: 71.3

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

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-5 -1 1963 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Canada was 71.3 years in 1963: 74.5 for women and 68.4 for men, a gap of 6.1 years. 145,112 people died; 59.7% of them were 65 or older and 9.4% children under five. The most common age at death was 75-79. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1963

Life expectancy at birth

71.3

Women

74.5

Men

68.4

Life expectancy at 65

14.9

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

26.0

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

30.1

Deaths

145,112

Deaths per 1,000 people

7.7

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

192

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

107

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.

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Show the life table data

Age	Death rate, women (‰)	Death rate, men (‰)	Years left, women	Years left, men
0	23.08	29.90	74.5	68.4
1-4	0.91	1.22	75.2	69.5
5-9	0.44	0.65	71.5	65.8
10-14	0.29	0.54	66.7	61.0
15-19	0.56	1.15	61.8	56.2
20-24	0.61	1.76	56.9	51.5
25-29	0.68	1.55	52.1	46.9
30-34	0.88	1.62	47.3	42.3
35-39	1.32	2.25	42.5	37.6
40-44	2.07	3.41	37.7	33.0
45-49	3.33	5.74	33.1	28.5
50-54	5.18	9.48	28.6	24.2
55-59	7.92	15.54	24.3	20.3
60-64	13.11	24.17	20.2	16.7
65-69	20.58	35.38	16.3	13.5
70-74	34.15	53.77	12.8	10.7
75-79	58.90	83.38	9.7	8.2
80-84	96.57	123.29	7.2	6.2
85-89	156.46	194.52	5.2	4.5
90-94	240.87	275.00	3.7	3.4
95-99	354.07	377.28	2.7	2.6
100+	492.56	496.72	2.0	2.0

Mortality in Canada by year

Mortality in Canada, 1963

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