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

Caribbean

1963

Life expectancy: 58.0

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 Caribbean was 58.0 years in 1963: 59.9 for women and 56.2 for men, a gap of 3.7 years. 261,897 people died; 23.2% of them were 65 or older and 44.8% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1963

Life expectancy at birth

58.0

Women

59.9

Men

56.2

Life expectancy at 65

13.0

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

91.9

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

139.1

Deaths

261,897

Deaths per 1,000 people

11.8

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

277

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

223

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	90.13	106.36	59.9	56.2
1-4	13.08	13.83	64.4	61.3
5-9	2.15	2.39	63.8	60.7
10-14	1.51	1.61	59.4	56.4
15-19	2.04	2.36	54.9	51.9
20-24	2.65	3.36	50.4	47.4
25-29	3.05	3.71	46.0	43.2
30-34	3.56	4.11	41.7	39.0
35-39	4.25	5.00	37.4	34.7
40-44	5.20	6.47	33.1	30.5
45-49	6.72	8.82	29.0	26.4
50-54	9.39	12.75	24.9	22.5
55-59	13.43	18.24	20.9	18.8
60-64	20.33	27.47	17.2	15.4
65-69	31.92	41.71	13.8	12.3
70-74	50.82	63.70	10.7	9.5
75-79	81.67	98.69	8.1	7.2
80-84	131.22	154.33	5.9	5.3
85-89	204.12	236.81	4.3	3.8
90-94	307.40	351.37	3.1	2.7
95-99	425.61	478.27	2.3	2.1
100+	530.73	589.03	1.9	1.7

Mortality in Caribbean by year

Mortality in Caribbean, 1963

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