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

Caribbean

1956

Life expectancy: 54.9

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

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-5 -1 1956 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Caribbean was 54.9 years in 1956: 56.8 for women and 53.1 for men, a gap of 3.7 years. 257,373 people died; 21.6% of them were 65 or older and 47.7% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1956

Life expectancy at birth

54.9

Women

56.8

Men

53.1

Life expectancy at 65

12.3

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

108.6

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

168.1

Deaths

257,373

Deaths per 1,000 people

13.3

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

306

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

242

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1956's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1956

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	108.27	126.53	56.8	53.1
1-4	16.96	18.02	62.2	59.0
5-9	2.10	2.36	62.4	59.3
10-14	1.52	1.62	58.0	55.0
15-19	2.24	2.67	53.5	50.4
20-24	2.99	3.90	49.0	46.1
25-29	3.42	4.25	44.7	41.9
30-34	3.99	4.73	40.5	37.8
35-39	4.76	5.71	36.2	33.6
40-44	5.72	7.29	32.0	29.5
45-49	7.33	9.90	27.9	25.5
50-54	10.23	14.10	23.8	21.7
55-59	14.65	20.26	20.0	18.1
60-64	22.55	30.10	16.3	14.7
65-69	35.94	45.82	12.9	11.7
70-74	57.40	69.42	10.0	9.0
75-79	92.70	107.65	7.4	6.8
80-84	148.40	168.34	5.4	4.9
85-89	229.78	257.65	3.9	3.5
90-94	346.17	383.34	2.8	2.5
95-99	488.07	529.39	2.0	1.9
100+	585.75	610.39	1.7	1.6

Mortality in Caribbean by year

Mortality in Caribbean, 1956

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